BeeGFS is an open-source parallel file system that is suitable for large data storage and environments that require high scalability. Originally known as the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft File System (FhGFS), BeeGFS was designed as a storage solution for high-performance computing by the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics in Germany.
BeeGFS is a parallel file system intended for large-scale file storage requirements while offering the performance needed for high-performance computing. Data can be spread across servers and disks to increase performance and capacity together as the system needs to scale. High performance is achieved through an architecture that separates metadata from file data for efficient read and write operations.
BeeGFS creates a flexible storage option by working with commodity hardware and any Linux POSIX file system and the BeeGFS Client. BeeGFS works with TCP/IP and RDMA networks including Infiniband, RoCE, and Omni-Path. BeeGFS can also be run in the cloud through AWS or Microsoft Azure.
As open source software, BeeGFS can be acquired for free. The BeeGFS client is available under the GPLv2 license and the server components are published under the BeeGFS EULA. A support contract for BeeGFS can also be purchased from ThinkParQ which provides support for the software as well as enables additional features for enterprise implementations such as high availability, quota enforcement, and access control lists.
BeeGFS provides advanced features such as Buddy Monitoring synchronous replication to mitigate the risk of hardware failures, storage pools to optimize efficiency of storage resources, and BeeOND (BeeGFS On Demand) to enable the use the internal flash drives of compute nodes as temporary file systems. BeeGFS also features an optional graphical interface for administration and management called “admon”.
BeeGFS Product Review Includes:
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