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BeeGFS.io

2024

How BeeGFS empowers HPC

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  • Established in 2014 as a spinoff from the Fraunhofer Center for High-Performance Computing
  • R&D company, providing development, support, consulting and sales services
  • Vendor-neutral
  • Organic growth = no VC / Funding
  • Yearly Sponsors of Women in HPC and Diversity days at tradeshows
  • Member of EOFS

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  • 10% market share* of parallel file systems
  • Accelerates some of the world's fastest supercomputers
  • Hardware agnostic to all kinds of technology
  • Publicly available source
  • Over 500+ enterprise deployments around the globe
  • Awarded the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Award 5 years in a row:

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* Source: Intersect 360, 2023

represents adoption at sites that indicated they deploy parallel file systems on their largest system

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General Challenges in today‘s world – a PFS view

  • Enduser
    • Max. Performance or/and Feature play
    • Application awareness of the underlying infrastructure (e.g. NVIDIA GDS)
    • Skill level of end-user – definition of requirements
    • open source = free of charge
      • License model vs. trust
    • Hardware agnostic and highly customizable comes at a price
      • One size fits all does not work

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  • Internally
    • Stay focused from a product perspective
      • Performance
      • Scalability
      • Robustness
      • Ease of use
    • Human resources

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Our Vision (Principles) for BeeGFS

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…and how it works today

Performance

Scalability

Ease of Use

Increase file system performance and capacity, seamlessly and non-disruptively

Easy to deploy and integrate with

existing infrastructure

Robust

High availability design enabling

continuous operations

Well balanced from small to large files

Clients

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