The VAST Data AI Operating System (AI OS) 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, our customers build scale-out systems delivering TB/s and millions of IOPS of performance without the rigidity and overhead of legacy architectures.
Consolidate scratch and nearline tiers to a single high-performance platform that eliminates data migrations and future-proofs your data for AI workloads. The VAST AI OS fuels innovative HPC teams to compute on exascale datasets from edge to cloud with unrivaled simplicity.
High-performance computing's relentless focus on performance at scale has long forced organizations into an uncomfortable tradeoff: move away from standard storage approaches for specialized parallel file systems, or sacrifice the computational power needed for supercomputing workloads. VAST Data eliminates this forced compromise entirely.
To handle the world’s most complex computational workloads, HPC teams have had to abandon familiar protocols like NFS for specialized parallel file systems (Lustre, GPFS, BeeGFS). While these systems delivered performance, they required complex custom clients, disruptive upgrades, and extensive tuning.
Enter the VAST AI OS. Built upon our disaggregated, shared-everything (DASE) architecture, it delivers the performance and scale of parallel file systems via standard NAS protocols like NFS, all with unparalleled simplicity and reliability.
VAST’s economics enable teams to consolidate scratch and nearline tiers into a single flash tier, giving researchers NVMe-speed access to data without staging or curation, while AI workloads get uncompromised random IO performance. VAST also auto-indexes all file and object metadata to the built-in VAST Catalog for fast searches and admin analysis via UI/SQL.
The main strategy is to have traverse storage on our system in order to be able to optimize all the movement. To have a single layer of access between different data centers to provide security on this particular storage in order to allow all of the workflows that we can think of in our complex environment. Today with the technology that we have today it is not possible. We are solving this with VAST.
When HPC teams spend less time troubleshooting and tuning complex storage systems, they gain more time to run simulations and accelerate discoveries. The VAST AI OS is a unified high-performance computing (HPC) storage solution that delivers all-flash speed with lower power consumption, helping reduce data center costs and improve sustainability.
Built to eliminate scheduled downtime and simplify access to data across edge, core, and cloud environments, VAST allows researchers to burst to the cloud with ease. This intelligent platform increases productivity of HPC and AI-powered research and simulation teams, driving faster insights and greater return on supercomputing investments.
Deploy all-flash infrastructure or all data sets. VAST’s advancements in flash management, data protection, and data reduction deliver a lower TCO than hybrid HPC storage systems combining high-performance storage with cost efficiency.
Eliminate the need for tiering appliances, client agents, data migrations, and other complexities with a single, easy-to-manage HPC storage solution built for simplicity at scale.
A unified, multi-protocol HPC storage platform for both unstructured data (NFS, SMB, S3) and structured data. Eliminate data silos and simplify analytics infrastructure with native SQL applications and modern query engines like Spark and Trino.
With support for NFS-over-RDMA and NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect™ Storage access, VAST delivers the performance of a parallel file system, without the complexity.
Defeat data gravity with granular, policy-driven data access from anywhere in the VAST DataSpace.
With always-online upgrades and expansions—and no complex tuning required—research teams gain faster insights and maximize productivity in high-performance computing environments.
The VAST AI OS seamlessly links HPC clusters, AI clusters, workstations, and collaboration tools to server pools over InfiniBand and Ethernet. It delivers parallel read/write I/O with a global namespace that spans data centers and the cloud.
VAST’s Disaggregated Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture breaks away from the complexity of traditional parallel file systems like Lustre and GPFS. By separating compute from storage and using all-flash infrastructure, it delivers scalable, low-latency performance with unified access across workloads—making it ideal for today’s HPC and AI environments.
Traditional HPC systems often require constant data shuffling, which slows performance and increases complexity. VAST solves this with a global namespace that keeps data accessible across edge, core, and cloud—minimizing movement, lowering latency, and enabling real-time collaboration without duplication.
AI and ML models demand fast, continuous access to massive datasets. VAST supports these high-throughput, low-latency requirements with real-time data processing, NVIDIA DPU integration, and advanced capabilities like vector embeddings and semantic search—powering Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and accelerated AI pipelines.
As data volumes and compute demands grow, VAST makes it easy to scale without reconfiguring systems or sacrificing performance. Its disaggregated architecture allows storage and compute to scale independently, while its global namespace and all-flash design ensure consistent, high-throughput access—no matter how large the environment gets.
With VAST, HPC teams can skip the constant tuning and third-party tools required by parallel file systems. Built-in high availability, automated data placement, and native multiprotocol access make managing complex environments easier—reducing operational overhead and freeing up IT teams to focus on innovation.
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