an existing cluster provisioning and monitor-ing environment and not require administra-tors to build Hadoop systems from scratch. Bright Cluster Manager addresses the above strate-gies remarkably well and allows HPC and Hadoop clusters to be easily created, monitored, and main-tained using a single comprehensive user interface. Bright Cluster Manager takes a much more fundamental & integrated approach Designed and written from the ground up Single cluster management daemon provides all functionality Single, central database for configuration and monitoring data Single CLI and GUI for ALL cluster management functionality Which makes Bright Cluster Manager One of our key HPC partners, Bright Computing, has just announced the release of Bright Cluster Manager 8.0, the latest version of their flagship HPC cluster management solution. This new version gives customers the ability to extend an on-premises cluster into Azure for added capacity, or to easily build a cluster entirely in Azure. Bright Cluster Manager 6.1 Administrator Manual 702 Preface Welcome to the Administrator Manual for the Bright Cluster Manager 6.1 cluster environment. 0.1 Quickstart For readers who want to get a cluster up and running as quickly as pos-sible with Bright Cluster Manager,Appendix F is a Bright Cluster Manager for Apache Hadoop is an option that enables Bright's leading cluster management software to build, manage, and maintain big data clusters using Hadoop. Installs on Bare Metal - With Bright Cluster Manager there's nothing to pre-install. Bright Computing, the leading provider of vendor-independent cluster and cloud management software, released Version 7.3 of Bright Cluster Manager™ and Bright OpenStack™. The updates Bright Cluster Manager 8.0 Release Sets New Standard for Automation May 10, 2017 by staff Leave a Comment Today Bright Computing announced the release of Bright Cluster Manager 8.0 and Bright OpenStack 8.0 with advanced, integrated solutions to imp