NexiPFS
Parallel storage without lock-in.
Your hardware. Our engineering.
NexiPFS is a hardware-independent, BeeGFS-based parallel file system from Nexibox™ for HPC, AI/ML, scientific research, engineering simulation and other data-intensive workloads.
Nexibox™ defines the performance engineering. ONE PARALLEL FILE SYSTEM • TWO BACKENDS • ONE OWNER
BeeGFS in front. You choose what sits behind it.
Three integrated layers. Engineered independently.
Tap a layer. Nexibox™ delivers all three as one integrated solution.
Software-defined storage with greater control.
Choose the hardware you prefer. We integrate it all.
Dell Technologies
AUTHORIZED PARTNEREnterprise compute and infrastructure platforms, integrated by workload and performance need
HPE
AUTHORIZED PARTNERHPE enterprise infrastructure, configured and integrated into the PFS environment
Customer-specified
WHERE REQUIREDOther compatible or customer-specified hardware platforms
Storage media: NVMe, SSD, SAS, HDD or hybrid. Networking sized to the bandwidth your workload needs, including high-speed Ethernet. Selected by performance, existing infrastructure, vendor preference, budget, capacity, expansion, support and procurement standards.
We evaluate seven things before we design anything.
Capacity
How much data needs to be stored?
Throughput
How much aggregate read/write bandwidth is required?
IOPS
What I/O performance does the application need?
Concurrency
How many compute clients access storage at once?
Workload pattern
Sequential, random, metadata-intensive or mixed?
Availability
Mission-critical, or can a compact design do?
Growth
How will capacity and performance needs evolve?
We don't just deploy BeeGFS. We engineer the complete data path.
A bottleneck at any layer affects final application performance, so we look at the whole path, not only the file system.
Server sizing · storage design · drive selection · RAID/SAN or ZFS architecture · network design · BeeGFS and metadata configuration · storage targets · tuning · benchmarking · workload validation.
Performance without unnecessary infrastructure.
Need something else? We design custom NexiPFS environments around capacity, IOPS, throughput, metadata performance, client count, media, network bandwidth, availability, expansion and your existing data center.
Compute + Network + File System + Storage. Engineered as one.
Storage performance can't be separated from the rest of the HPC environment. Our team finds bottlenecks, optimizes the whole data path and validates the result against your performance requirements.
Ten steps. One continuous flow.
HPC, AI & data-intensive computing.
Five ways NexiPFS grows with you.
Build your NexiPFS. We'll make it a real spec.
Backend
Deployment
Hardware
Workload
The short version.
Ten reasons, one owner.
NexiPFS?
Don't start with a storage box.
Start with the performance your workload needs.
Tell us your capacity, IOPS, throughput, client count, workload, availability and budget. Our HPC engineers will design the NexiPFS architecture around them.
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