Frank Herold from ThinkParQ gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. “Together with our partners around the globe, we work hard to create the fastest, most stable and most flexible turn-key solutions for every performance-oriented environment. Therefore, you can find BeeGFS powered solutions not only in HPC, but also in all other markets where performance matters: Life Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Oil & Gas, Media & Entertainment, and Automotive.”
ThinkParQ Brings BeeGFS to E8 Storage
April 9, 2019 by
Today E8 Storage announced a technology partnership with ThinkParQ to enable the integration of BeeGFS with E8 Storage’s NVMe-oF solution. The combined solution will offer customers new levels of improved performance and scalability for data intensive workloads. “With the combination of E8 Storage’s RAID functionality and ThinkParQ’s BeeGFS file system, customers can scale out by adding as many nodes as needed to meet or exceed capacity requirements.”
Inspur to Offer BeeGFS Storage Systems for HPC and AI Clusters
March 29, 2019 by
Today Inspur announced that it will offer integrated storage solutions with the BeeGFS filesystem. BeeGFS, a leading parallel cluster file system with a distributed metadata architecture, has gained global acclaim for its usability, scalability and powerful metadata processing functions. “BeeGFS has unique advantages in terms of usability, flexibility and performance,” said Liu Jun, General Manager of AI&HPC, Inspur. “It can easily adapt to the different business needs of HPC and AI users. The cooperation between Inspur and ThinkParQ will provide our HPC and AI cluster solutions users with an integrated BeeGFS system and a range of high-quality services, helping them to improve efficiency with BeeGFS.”
BGFS File System Shows Momentum in Asia with Pacific Teck
February 6, 2019 by
Today ThinkParQ announced its Platinum Partnership with Pacific Teck in APAC. Founded in 2013, Pacific Teck brings cutting edge technology products from around the world to the APAC region and since 2017, Pacific Teck has been paramount in the success and growth of BeeGFS in the deployments in APAC.
ThinkparQ Teams with QCT to Demonstrate BeeGFS
June 11, 2018 by
Today ThinkParQ announced that the company is working with Quanta Cloud Technology on a prototype HPC system to demonstrate the power of their combined technologies. Using the BeeGFS parallel file system, the demo cluster will be built around the Intel Rack Scale Design. “Utilizing BeeGFS with its ease of use, maximum scalability and flexibility such as BeeGFS on demand (BeeOND), buddy mirroring or the newly introduced storage pool concept, this demo environment provides a maximum flexibility for various customers cases to prove the value of a combined QCT and ThinkParQ solution,” said Frank Herold, CEO of ThinkParQ.
Nyriad and ThinkParQ Announce Partnership to Certify GPU-accelerated Storage
March 27, 2018 by
Today Nyriad and ThinkParQ announced a partnership to develop a certification program for high performance, resilient storage systems that combine BeeGFS with NSULATE, Nyriad’s solution for GPU-accelerated storage-processing. “We believe this is the beginning of a fantastic partnership between two innovative software companies with similar roots in the high performance computing community said ThinkParQ CEO Frank Herold. “BeeGFS was developed at the Fraunhofer Center for High Performance Computing, while Nyriad’s NSULATE was originally developed from a partnership with the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Australia. We want to bring our expertise to the wider storage industry by creating new standards for performance and reliability suitable for the coming generation of exascale systems.”
TUK in Germany installs NEC LX Supercomputer with Intel Omni-Path
March 7, 2018 by
NEC Deutschland GmbH has delivered an LX series supercomputer to Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (TUK), one of Germany’s leading Universities of Technology. “The new HPC cluster consists of 324 compute nodes totaling nearly 7,800 cores of the latest-generation Intel Skylake CPUs, and comprises a highly optimized Intel Omni-Path Interconnect architecture for low-latency, high-bandwidth communication. Additional GPGPU compute nodes equipped with the latest NVIDIA VOLTA 100 GPUs contribute to a total peak performance of the HPC cluster at approximately 700 Teraflops.”
ThinkParQ Welcomes New CEO as BeeGFS Continues Record Growth
February 1, 2018 by
Today ThinkParQ announced the appointment of Frank Herold as CEO. While the company enjoyed a record-setting year in 2017, the move sets the stage for further growth of the BeeGFS file system for high performance computing. “Frank has a long history in the field of large scale enterprise file systems and is well experienced in expansion into new markets, which is exactly our strategic focus for the years ahead. With his strong technical and management background, I trust that he is the ideal person to manage the company based on a deep understanding of customer and market demands.” says Sven Breuner, former CEO of ThinkParQ.
System Fabric Works adds support for BeeGFS Parallel File System
December 7, 2017 by
Today System Fabric Works announced 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 System Fabric Work’s (SFW) Converged Infrastructure solutions for high-performance Enterprise Computing, Data Analytics and Machine Learning. “We are pleased to announce our Gold Partner relationship with ThinkParQ,” said Kevin Moran, President and CEO, System Fabric Works. “Together, SFW and ThinkParQ can deliver, worldwide, a highly converged, scalable computing solution based on BeeGFS, engineered with NetApp E-Series, a choice of InfiniBand, 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.”
NEC’s Aurora Vector Engine & Advanced Storage Speed HPC & Machine Learning at ISC 2017
July 5, 2017 by
In this video from ISC 2017, Oliver Tennert from NEC Deutschland GmbH introduces the company’s advanced technologies for HPC and Machine Learning. “Today NEC Corporation announced that it has developed data processing technology that accelerates the execution of machine learning on vector computers by more than 50 times in comparison to Apache Spark technologies.”
