BeeGFS is a parallel file system - by adding more servers, the capacity and performance of them is aggregated in a single namespace. That way the filesystem performance and capacity can be scaled to the level which is required for the specific application. BeeGFS is targeted at everyone, who has a need for large and/or fast storage. Traditional fields are HighPerformance- and HighThroughputComputing as well as for storage of (large and growing) research data. The concept of scalability additionally allows users with a fast (but perhaps irregular) growth to adapt easily to the situation they are facing over time. A very important differentiator for BeeGFS is the ease-of-use. BeeGFS is fully transparant and supports most POSIX commands. BeeGFS daemons run in any combination, so that no separate storage servers are required. BeeGFS stores data on persistant EBS volumes in a RAID0 to maximize throughput. You can shutdown and reboot a BeeGFS cluster without losing your data. Further, BeeGFS automatically recovers from failures (e.g. instances, hardware failures).