System Fabric Works and ThinkParQ Partnering

System Fabric Works, Inc. (SFW) announces its support and integration of the BeeGFS file system with the latest NetApp E-Series all-flash and HDD storage systems which makes BeeGFS available on the family of NetApp E-Series Hyperscale Storage products as part of SFW converged infrastructure solutions for high-performance enterprise computing, data analytics and machine learning.

BeeGFS, parallel cluster file system

“We are pleased to announce our Gold Partner relationship with ThinkParQ,” said Kevin Moran, president and CEO, SFW. “Together, SFW and ThinkParQ can deliver, worldwide, a highly converged, scalable computing solution based on BeeGFS, engineered with NetApp E-Series, a choice of IB, Omni-Path, RDMA over Ethernet and NVMe over Fabrics for targeted performance and 99.9999 reliability utilizing customer-chosen clustered servers and clients and SFW’s services for architecture, integration, acceptance and on-going support services.”

SFW’s solutions can utilize each of these networking topologies for optimal BeeGFS performance and 99.9999 reliability as full turnkey deployments, adapted to utilize customer-chosen clustered servers and clients. SFW provides services for architecture, integration, acceptance and on-going support services.

BeeGFS delivered by ThinkParQ GmbH, is a parallel cluster file system designed specifically to deal with I/O intensive workloads in performance-critical environments. With a focus on performance and flexibility, including converged environments where storage servers are also used for computing, it help customers to increase their productivity by delivering results faster and by enabling analysis methods that were not possible without the advantages of BeeGFS.

Designed for easy installation and management, BeeGFS transparently spreads user data across multiple servers. Therefore, the users can scale performance and capacity to the desired level by increasing the number of servers and disks in the system, seamlessly from small clusters up to enterprise systems with thousands of nodes. BeeGFS, which is available open source, is powering the storage of hundreds of scientific and industry customer sites worldwide.

Sven Breuner, CEO, ThinkParQ, stated: “The long experience and solid track record of SFW in the field of enterprise storage makes us proud of this new partnership. Together, we can now deliver perfectly tailored solutions that meet and exceed customer expectations, no matter whether the customer needs a traditional spinning disk system for high capacity, an all-flash system for maximum performance or a cost-effective hybrid solution with pools of spinning disks and flash drives together in the same file system.“

Due to its performance tuned design and various optimized features, BeeGFS is for demanding, high-performance, high-throughput workloads found in technical computing for modeling and simulation, product engineering, life sciences, deep learning, predictive analytics, media, financial services, and more business advantage tools.

With the new storage pools feature in BeeGFS v7, users can now have their current project pinned to the NetApp E-Series all-flash SSD pool to have the performance of an all-flash system, while the rest of the data resides on spinning disks, where it also can be accessed directly – all within the same namespace and thus transparent for applications.

SFW BeeGFS solutions can be based on x86_64 and ARM64 ISAs, support multiple networks with dynamic failover and provide fault-tolerance with built-in replication, and come with additional file system integrity and storage reliability features. Another compelling part of the solution offerings is BeeOND (BeeGFS on demand) which allows on the fly creation of a temporary parallel file system instances on the internal SSDs of compute nodes a per-job basis for burst-buffering. Graphical monitoring and an additional command line interface provides easy management for any kind of environment.

SFW BeeGFS high performance storage solutions with architectural design, implementation and on-gong support services are available from System Fabric Works.

ThinkParQ was founded as a spin-off from the Fraunhofer Center for HPC by the people behind BeeGFS to bring fast, robust, scalable storage to market. It is responsible for support, provides consulting, organizes and attends events, and works together with system integrators to create solutions. ThinkParQ and Fraunhofer internally cooperate to deliver support services and to drive further development and optimization of BeeGFS for tomorrow’s performance-critical systems.

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