Reference Guide

Solution overview
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Figure 4 Management network
Figure 5 shows high-speed interconnect with Intel® OPA. The network topology is 2:1 blocking fat tree which
requires three Dell Network H1048-OPF 48 port switches.
Figure 5 Interconnection with Intel® OPA; 2:1 blocking fat tree topology
2.6 Software components
Along with the hardware components, the solution includes the following software components:
- Bright Cluster Manager
> Bright Computing is a commercial application that provides comprehensive software solutions
for deploying and managing HPC clusters, big data clusters, and OpenStack in the data
center and in the cloud (13). Bright Cluster Manager can be used to deploy complete clusters
over bare metal, and manage them effectively. Once the cluster is up and running, the user