Exxact Becomes ThinkParQ Gold Partner

Exxact Corporation has become a North America Gold Partner of ThinkParQ GmbH, the company behind the parallel file system BeeGFS.

Exxact is a provider of HPC and deep learning solutions. Its solutions are providing an aggregated throughput of multiple servers, while also distributing metadata across multiple servers and providing single stream performance.

BeeGFS workloads are multi-threaded, lightweight and support interconnects including RDMA/RoCE, IB, Omni-Path, 100/40/10/1GbE.

BeeGFS has grown among industries in HPC including life sciences, AI and deep learning, M&E, oil and gas, financial services.

As a Gold Partner, Exxact can offer a parallel file system with competitive pricing and support. Additionally, its history, expertise and training with BeeGFS enables the company to deliver customized solutions. It has a history of manufacturing and implementing HPC systems and storage solutions, which led to their Gold level partnership with ThinkParQ.

“BeeGFS offers the usability, flexibility, and performance that our HPC and deep learning customers expect and depend on in a storage solution from us,” said Andrew Nelson, VP of technology, Exxact. “Exxact HPC and deep learning clusters with BeeGFS will realize dramatic improvements in managing storage workloads and will handle I/O bandwidth issues with ease.“

 “We are really excited to have Exxact as a Gold Partner in North America and look forward to future successes. Working closely together, Exxact customers now have access to a turn-key solution that delivers where performance matters,” said Frank Herold, CEO, ThinkParQ.  

As a certified BeeGFS Gold Partner, Exxact provides custom system designs for customers.

In addition to custom solutions, Exxact will also offer 3 cluster configurations:

• Entry-Level BeeGFS Cluster: 1PB storage capacity with NVMe storage optional
• Mid-Range BeeGFS Cluster: 5PB storage capacity with NVMe storage optional
• High-End BeeGFS Cluster: 2PB storage capacity with NVMe storage optional

BeeGFS Parallel Storage offers: 

• Storage appliances built on validated hardware for the most demanding HPC workloads.
• Open source file system that’s platform agnostic and compatible with interconnects (IB, RoCE, Intel OPA).
• Customer support with remote SSH troubleshooting available.