Bright Computing was founded by Matthijs van Leeuwen in 2009, who spun the company out of ClusterVision, which he had co-founded with Alex Ninaber and Arijan Sauer.
[1][2] They left Compusys in 2002 to start ClusterVision in the Netherlands, after determining there was a growing market for building and managing supercomputer clusters using off-the-shelf hardware components and open source software, tied together with their own customized scripts.
[3] ClusterVision also provided delivery and installation support services for HPC clusters at universities and government entities.
IDG Communications, Inc.[7] Early customers included Boeing,[8] Sandia National Laboratories,[9] Virginia Tech,[10] Hewlett Packard,[11] NSA, and Drexel University.
[17] In 2014, the company announced Bright OpenStack, software to deploy, provision, and manage OpenStack-based private cloud infrastructures.
Bright Cluster Manager software is frequently sold through original equipment manufacturer (OEM) resellers, including Dell and HPE.