BeeGFS Workshop 2026

13 Oct 2026, 10:00 → 14 Oct 2026, 14:00 Europe/Berlin

R034 (DKRZ)

Anna Fuchs (DKRZ), Dominic McKendry (ThinkParQ GmbH), Ingo Martini (ThinkParQ GmbH), Jannek Squar (DKRZ)

Tuesday 13 October

10:30 Anmeldung

1 BeeGFS für Newbees!

13:30 Pause

2 What's new in BeeGFS 8?

Datamanagement in BeeGFS
Tiering within the namespace
Replication - data movement between BeeGFS + Object storage
How to use filter-files for data management
Data management API
file data states
BeeGFS copy

15:30 Pause

3 BeeGFS + NVMe

Tuning for NVMe storage targets
RDMA connections - tuning + explanation

Wednesday 14 October

4 Anwenderberichte

Welche Applikationen laufen auf BeeGFS gut, wo gibt es Herausforderungen?

5 Quota in BeeGFS v8

How does it works
How to optimise

10:30 Pause

6 BeeGFS + client site caching

Options pro / cons
meta caching pro / cons
Example application behaviour

12:00 Schlussworte