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2.4 Software Configuration
Along with the hardware components, the solution includes the following software components:
• Bright Cluster Manager®
• BioBuilds
2.4.1 Bright Cluster Manager
Bright Computing is a commercial software that provides comprehensive software solutions for deploying and
managing HPC clusters, big data clusters and OpenStack in the data center and in the cloud. 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 graphical user interface monitors every single node and reports if it detects any
software or hardware events.
2.4.2 BioBuilds
BioBuilds is a well maintained, versioned and continuously growing collection of open-source bio-informatics
tools from Lab7. They are prebuilt and optimized for a variety of platforms and environments. BioBuilds tries
to solve the software challenges faced by the life sciences domain.
• Imagine a newer version of a tool being released. Updating it may not be straight forward and would
probably involve updating all the dependencies the software has as well. BioBuilds includes the
software and its supporting dependencies for ease of deployment.
• Using BioBuilds among all the collaborators can ensure reproducibility since everyone is running the
same version of the software.
In short, it is a turnkey application package.