Taking on the world’s most complex computational workloads required a relentless focus on performance at scale that lead HPC teams away from well-known storage protocols like NFS and to adopt specialized parallel file systems that provided support for parallel streaming operations. Parallel file systems like Lustre, GPFS, and BeeGFS were 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 proving 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. 

VAST’s archive economics make it affordable to consolidate scratch and nearline tiers to a single flash tier.  When all data is available for processing at NVMe speed researchers no longer need to stage or curate data sets and AI-powered workloads benefit from uncompromised random IO performance. Further simplifying data management, VAST automatically indexes file and object metadata to the built-in and always-in-sync VAST Catalog.  Researchers can search and find data faster and administrators can analyze application behavior and audit access with an intuitive UI and SQL interface for advanced queries.

When teams spend less effort tuning and troubleshooting, when scheduled downtime and outages are eliminated, researchers get more time to run simulations and analyze data. With all-flash performance that is orders of magnitude faster than spinning disk, computational jobs finish faster, reducing power consumption to make HPC data centers more sustainable. And when researchers need 1000s of cores for complex simulations VAST’s global namespace that unifies cloud, edge, and core makes it simple to burst to the cloud. The VAST Data Platform is unified and built as a singular intelligent system that increases the productivity of HPC and AI-powered research and helps customers drive value from their supercomputing investments.