BeeGFS Storage Appliances | BeeGFS Servers for HPC

Never Lose Data Again

BeeGFS Buddy Mirroring automatically replicates data, handles storage server failures transparently for running applications and provides automatic self-healing.

Efficient Persistent Access

Create multiple storage pools with segmented projects based on performance so each project gets exactly what it needs.

Scale On Demand

Simply add more disks to increase capacity, plus with BeeOND, you can easily create on-demand shared parallel filesystems on a per-job basis.

Simple and Scalable on any Hardware

BeeGFS Architecture

Networking

BeeGFS systems are compatible with any TCP/IP or RDMA-capable networks like Infiniband, Omni-Path, or RoCE.

Management Node

BeeGFS Management Service provides a rendevouz point for new servers and clients while continually protecting registered services and state checking.

Metadata Node

The metadata servers manage file directory information, ownership, and file location targets for quick retrieval.

Flash Storage

An optional way to provide optimal performance for active high-performance jobs. Storage targets can be combined into a Fast Pool and tied to a directory.

Storage Storage

These robust storage servers perform the bulk storage functions including storing user file contents either internal or externally attached.

1 PB 16U Storage Cluster

4x 4U Storage Nodes

1,056TB Capacity

Flash storage pools optional - NVME or SSD

1.5 PB 24U Storage Cluster

6x 4U Storage Nodes

1,584TB Capacity

Flash storage pools optional - NVME or SSD

2 PB 32U Storage Cluster

8x 4U Storage Nodes

2,112TB Capacity

Flash storage pools optional - NVME or SSD

Each Exxact BeGFS Storage Cluster Includes

1x 1U Management Node

2x Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
96GB Memory
960GB SSD
24TB HDD

1x 1U Metadata Node

2x Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
96GB Memory
960GB SSD
48TB HDD

1x 1U Networking

10GbE Ethernet
24 Ports
Optional 25GbE/40GbE/50GbE
Optional EDR IB/ 100GbE

See How it Scales

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Specs: 2x Intel Xeon X5660, 48 GB RAM, 4x Intel 510 Series SSD (RAID 0), Ext4, QDR Infiniband and run Scientific Linux 6.3, Kernel 2.6.32-279 and FhGFS 2012.10-beta1 Performed on Fraunhofer Seislab, a test and experimental cluster at Fraunhofer ITWM with 25 nodes (20 compute + 5 storage) and a three tier memory: 1 TB RAM, 20 TB SSD, 120 TB HDD. Single node performance on the local file system without BeeGFS is 1,332 MB/s (write) and 1,317 MB/s (read).