Press Release: ThinkParQ and Supermicro Partner to Deliver Ground-Breaking Performance in Enterprise, AI, and HPC Storage

Kaiserslautern, Germany, 16th November 2025, ThinkParQ, the company behind the award winning and leading parallel file system BeeGFS, is proud to announce a new partnership with Supermicro, a global leader in high-performance server and storage solutions. Together, the companies are setting new benchmarks in performance, scalability, and efficiency for enterprise applications, artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructures, and high-performance computing (HPC) environments.

Modern enterprise and AI workloads demand storage systems that provide exceptional speed, scalability, and resilience all while maintaining cost-efficiency. The collaboration between ThinkParQ and Supermicro directly addresses these challenges, combining BeeGFS’s massively parallel, high-availability file system with Supermicro’s All-Flash Storage Bridge Bay (SBB) SSG-221E-DN2R24R system.

This joint solution delivers:

• Unmatched performance, achieving the world’s highest throughput in a 2U system

• Seamless scalability for expanding workloads

• Optimized design for AI training, HPC simulations, and data-intensive enterprise environments

• High availability and reliability through BeeGFS’s advanced clustering and redundancy features

• Cost efficiency through balanced hardware-software integration

Supermicro’s All-Flash storage systems leverage the latest flash SSD technology and integrate seamlessly with BeeGFS to provide a fully optimized solution for next-generation workloads. Designed for balance, scalability, and performance, the platform empowers organizations to maximize throughput and minimize latency making it ideal for AI data pipelines, large-scale simulations, and enterprise-grade analytics.

“Our partnership with Supermicro represents a major step forward in delivering storage solutions that meet the needs of tomorrow’s AI and HPC infrastructures,” said Frank Herold, CEO ThinkParQ. “Together, we’re enabling customers to unlock new levels of performance, scalability, and efficiency — all in a costeffective footprint.”

The combined solution showcases how hardware innovation and software intelligence can come together to deliver extraordinary results in compact, energy-efficient systems.

“Supermicro is dedicated to pioneering innova^on in HPC, hyperscale, enterprise, and AI. Our partnership with ThinkParQ underscores our commitment to providing cu_ng-edge storage solu^ons that enable companies to achieve high-performance storage on our advanced pla`orms,” said Lawrence Lam, VP of AI and Storage Technology at Supermicro. “When combined with Supermicro’s innova^ve storage systems, BeeGFS enhances these advantages through NVMe-oF, delivering low-latency, composable infrastructure.”

About ThinkParQ GmbH

ThinkParQ GmbH strives to create and develop the fastest, most flexible, and most stable solutions for every performance-oriented environment. Established in 2014 as a spinoff from the Fraunhofer Center for High-Performance Computing, ThinkParQ drives the research and development of BeeGFS, and works closely with system integrators to create turn-key solutions. Visit http://www.thinkparq.com for further information.

About BeeGFS

BeeGFS is one of the leading parallel cluster file systems, developed with a strong focus on performance and designed for very easy installation and management. If I/O-intensive workloads are your problem, BeeGFS is the solution. For more information, visit www.beegfs.io

Press Contact:

Troy Patterson, VP Marketing, ThinkParQ GmbH, troy.patterson@thinkparq.com