"Bright Cluster Manager makes large and complex HPC clusters easy to use and manage, helping our customers to increase productivity and reduce total cost of ownership", stated Deborah Newman, Director, Professional Services at PCPC Direct. "Bright Cluster Manager allows us to provision hundreds to thousands of nodes within hours and rapidly deploy software updates."

PCPC Direct is a reseller of HP and IBM hardware and a trusted provider of high performance and high availability solutions to the oil & gas, high-tech, financial services and higher education sectors in Texas. PCPC Direct has designed and built HPC clusters and server farms totaling over 200,000 servers, including many TOP500 systems.

Bright Cluster Manager is a Linux-based cluster management software solution specifically designed to make HPC clusters of any size easy to install, use and manage. Its intuitive graphical user interface offers consistent access to all management and monitoring functionality for the cluster administrators. Its HPC user environment provides a comprehensive range of HPC software development tools for the cluster users.