Bright Computing

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2022: Nvidia bought Bright Computing

In early January 2022, the manufacturer video cards Nvidia announced the purchase of Bright Computing. The company did not disclose the financial component of the transaction.

Bright has a strong corporate presence: the company's software is used in more than 700 well-known organizations, including Microsoft, Samsung Electronics, Boeing, Tesla, Siemens, as well as NASA. Bright Computing software automates the administration of HPC clusters, allowing you to manage hundreds of servers.

Nvidia's collaboration with Bright Computing has been going on for ten years, the company's software is integrated with Nvidia graphics processors, as well as with the Nvidia DGX artificial intelligence network and systems.

Nvidia bought Bright Computing

Nvidia said the purchase of Bright will allow it to provide more complete infrastructure platforms that will help implement accelerated computing in enterprises. According to Nvidia, Bright Cluster Manager will be integrated into the company's own software stack. According to Nvidia, this will simplify the purchase, construction and operation of data centers and create a more successful future for high-performance computing.

Moor Insights & Strategy analyst Carl Freund noted that Nvidia has been gradually moving over the years to become a full-fledged provider of computing solutions for cloud computing and enterprises.

Now they can add cluster management to the list, "he explained. - While it doesn't matter much and has no significant impact on Nvidia's profits and losses, it is another milestone in its evolution from a chip maker to a provider of accelerated data center solutions.

Nvidia also added that this acquisition is perfect for what the company often calls the "era of industrial high-performance computing," when clusters underlie scalable high-performance computing - a trend that originated in supercomputer centers, but has become the main one to support AI workloads.^[1]

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