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BeeGFS is a parallel file system, developed and optimized for high-performance computing. BeeGFS includes a distributed metadata architecture for scalability and flexibility reasons. Its most important aspect is data throughput. BeeGFS is developed at the ''Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics'' (ITWM) in Kaiserslautern, Germany and was initially known under the name FhGFS, short for Fraunhofer Gesellschaft File System (or ''Fraunhofer FS''). On ISC'14 in Leipzig, Fraunhofer presented the new name for the first time to the public, even though the renaming process had begun with the founding of a Fraunhofer spin-off. The software can be downloaded and used free of charge from the project’s website.〔 〕 ==History & usage== BeeGFS started in 2005 as an in-house development at Fraunhofer ITWM to replace the existing file system on the institute’s new compute cluster and to be used in a production environment. In 2007, the first beta version of the software was announced during ISC07 in Dresden, Germany and introduced to the public during SC07 in Reno, NV. One year later the first stable major release became available. In 2014, Fraunhofer started its spin-off. The new company called ThinkParQ〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thinkparq.com )〕 will take over sales, customer service, and professional support. In this process, FhGFS was renamed and became BeeGFS®. While ThinkParQ will take over customer support and sales, Fraunhofer ITWM will continue to drive the further development of the software. The focus will stay on improvements and new features for HPC systems and applications. Due to the nature of BeeGFS being free of charge, it is unknown how many active installations there are. However, there are around 100 customers worldwide that use BeeGFS and are supported by Fraunhofer. Among those are academic users such as universities and research facilities as well as for-profit companies in finance or the oil & gas industry. Notable installations include several TOP500 computers such as Loewe-CSC cluster at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany (#22 on installation), the Vienna Scientific Cluster at the University of Vienna, Austria (#56 on installation), and the Abel cluster at the University of Oslo, Norway (#96 on installation). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BeeGFS」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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