BeeGFS User Group

BUG 2026 Chicago

November 16th | 2:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Location: ROW24 2411 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616

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We’re excited to announce that the BeeGFS User Group (BUG) is coming to Chicago in November, alongside SC2026. BUG brings together the global BeeGFS community, including HPC professionals, partners, customers, and storage experts. Attendees will gain valuable insights from ThinkParQ experts and real-world BeeGFS users, sharing best practices, performance strategies, and success stories.

Our BeeGFS team will present an exclusive look at the BeeGFS roadmap, highlighting the latest innovations in parallel file systems, and upcoming product and service enhancements.

We will also be hosting a BeeGFS Happy Hour and Buffet directly after BUG.

BeeGFS User Group – BUG 2026

Agenda

BUG will start at 2:00 PM with registration.

The sessions will run from 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM. The BUG Happy Hour and Buffet will start at 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

  • You can click on each session title to open a short description and learn more about what the session is about.

  • 14:00 Registration

What’s new in the world of BeeGFS – including the four pillars of BeeGFS Hive Enterprise offerings, introduction to the newly launched  BeeOND Enterprise, plus updates on the EULA and the licensing model (Enterprise, Community, Trial).

BeeGFS development is moving faster than ever. Haven’t had time to keep up? We’ve got you covered with a quick recap of our recent releases.

While BeeGFS ships with sensible defaults for most workloads, there’s usually more performance on the table. Learn how our current-generation reference architectures were tuned, how fast they can go, and how to apply those lessons to your own deployments.

Further details coming soon.

From policy-driven data placement to automatic data movement, we’re continuing to evolve how BeeGFS manages data across its lifecycle. This session introduces our latest additions: automatic data sync and restore. We’ll cover how they work and where they fit into real-world workflows.

We’ve rethought how BeeGFS restores files from long-term archival storage, whether that’s AWS Glacier or an on-premises tape library. Turns out tape is a lot faster when you stop making it jump around.

A short break to refresh, network, and grab a cup of coffee and a light snack.

Further details coming soon.

While quotas are an important part of any storage solution, quotas in BeeGFS were not always as easy to use as we would have liked… so we simplified how they’re configured, and fixed a few pesky bugs that could slow things down at scale.

Different storage technologies like NVMe flash and spinning disks have distinct performance characteristics and preferred access patterns. While BeeGFS has long supported direct IO when requested by the client, tuning IO patterns directly on the storage services (independent of client-side behavior) offers additional benefits. Join us to see how new BeeGFS versions will handle diverse IO workloads more efficiently.

Long-standing timeout-based caching mechanisms have a fundamental disadvantage: metadata must be refreshed on a fixed schedule even when it’s still valid. Enter all-new BeeGFS persistent metadata caching where write-once read-many workloads can now benefit from long-lived metadata caching with server-driven invalidation, optimizing even the most metadata-intensive workloads. Join us for an early look and share your feedback.

Join us to stay updated on the roadmap and outlook for BeeGFS 8.5 and beyond. From ideas fresh in the oven to ones almost ready to serve. Order up!

Join us as we announce the launch of exciting and long-requested functionality in BeeGFS.

Have your questions ready for the BeeGFS Engineering team or the wider BeeGFS Community.

As BUG concludes, join our team and the BeeGFS community for a happy hour and buffet dinner ahead of the opening of SC. We’ll be hosting an open bar and a buffet spread of tasty options, including  burger stations and a build-your-own-taco station and lots more.

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Join us in Chicago to connect, learn, and explore the future of scalable storage solutions with BeeGFS.

Call for Papers!

Bring the buzz! Submit your paper and share how you’re using BeeGFS in your deployment with the community!

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About the event

November 16th, 2026

 

ROW24 – Chicago

2411 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616

From 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM