Uncompromising Performance, Unrivaled Simplicity, Embarrassing Parallelism for Exascale Computing
The VAST Data Platform accelerates HPC by delivering the performance and scale of parallel file systems with the simplicity of NAS, all at archive economics.
Powered by VAST’s DASE architecture, customers build scale-out systems delivering TB/s and millions of IOPS of performance without the rigidity and overhead of legacy architectures.
Unrivaled Simplicity and Reliability for HPC
The VAST Data Platform fuels innovative HPC teams to compute on exascale data sets from edge to cloud with unrivaled simplicity and performance.
Parallel file systems like Lustre, GPFS, and BeeGFS were historically accepted as the only viable option for HPC workloads, and the complexity of custom software clients, disruptive upgrades, expansion and customized tuning as unavoidable tradeoffs.
Enter the VAST Data Platform, with the revolutionary Disaggregated, Shared Everything (DASE) architecture that builds an inherently parallel foundation for world-class HPC performance and scalability.
Leading HPC teams are seeing that with VAST they can get all the performance and scale of parallel file systems via standard NAS protocols like NFS while gaining unparalleled simplicity and reliability.
PDF -Analyst Report – IDC – High Performance NFS Storage for HPC-AI
This IDC Perspective discusses VAST Data’s continued hypergrowth and how growing data demands are driving it. VAST Data has set the enterprise storage industry record for rapid growth not only in the unstructured data storage market but for all storage markets in the history of the industry.
IDC explains the VAST Data value proposition from a business point of view and also delves into the technical validation behind VAST’s compelling offering.
“VAST Data addresses the needs of unstructured data management in this new era, and its financial performance to date speaks for itself. Not only is it a vendor to watch in enterprise storage, it is THE vendor to watch.” - Eric Burgener, Research Vice President, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms, and Technologies Group at IDC.
White Paper – Exascale NAS
Simplicity and scale have never been words that HPC storage architects could combine in a single sentence—until now.
VAST Data has created a new system architecture that solves the scalability challenges of NFS, adds RDMA support to maximize the use of high-speed networks, and combines an embarrassingly parallel system architecture with a revolutionary approach to flash efficiency.
As modern environments scale to millions of cores, legacy parallel file systems can’t service the distributed metadata transaction requirements of these many-core systems. VAST Data’s disaggregated, shared-everything architecture solves this challenge, where scalable systems can now deliver 100Ms of data OPS and IOPS to millions of compute cores.
HPC Storage Considerations & VAST Data's Approach
Most HPC storage solutions not only fail to affordably provide adequate performance across ALL your datasets, but also fail to accommodate for the high degree of variability between data sizes and access patterns. This makes affordable flash storage all the more critical for HPC.
In this video VAST’s CMO and Co-Founder, Jeff Denworth, explains how you can accelerate HPC applications without complex PFS software & how VAST’s Universal Storage is engineered at every level to make flash affordable for HPC applications.
The VAST Experience – European Bioinformatics Institute
VAST Data’s Universal Storage is a data storage platform that combines highperformance storage with low-cost, scalable capacity. The platform is designed to support a wide range of workloads and use cases, including HPC, genomics, bioinfomatics, chemistry applications, and large-scale computational resources.
In this video Rafael Griman, Compute Team Lead at EMBL-EBI talks about managing 100s of petabytes of storage with VAST's Universal Storage.
The VAST Experience: University of Utah – HPC
In this video Sam Liston, Senior IT Architect at The University of Utah Center for HPC talks about supporting hundreds of varied research applications with VAST to simplify storage environments and administration.
The VAST Experience: Northeastern University
In this video Spencer Pruitt, Associate Vice President of Academic & Research Technologies at Northeastern University talks about consolidating 7 different file systems down to just one simple, secure, scalable platform with VAST's Universal Storage.
Video - The VAST Experience – San Diego Supercomputer Center
In this video Frank Würthwein, Director at San Diego Supercomputer Center at talks about storing exabytes of data on a single, simple & highly performant tier of flash with VAST's Universal Storage.
The VAST Experience: Down Under Geo (DUG)
In this video Stuart Midgley, CIO at DUG talks about supporting 100s of petabytes of storage with ease, to deliver HPCaaS across the globe with VAST to simplify storage environments and administration.