Vast Data Achieves Nvidia DGX SuperPOD Certification

Vast Data Ltd announced that its Data Platform is a certified datastore for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD.

This new validation provides organizations with agile, scalable performance for the most challenging ML and deep learning workloads, including generative AI.

The Data Platform brings to market an enterprise NAS solution approved to support NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD. NVIDIA customers can enjoy the simplicity of the platform with virtually limitless levels of scale and performance via a system architecture that eliminates data tiers and infrastructure silos to make large scale AI simpler, faster and easier to manage.

With Vast, customers go beyond the definitions of classical HPC storage with an exaabyte-scale data platform that provides enterprises systems and data management, featuring capabilities such as:

• Encryption, authentication and external key management along with a data catalog to help customers manage their data and data security in real time.
• Vast’s multi-tenant approach for GPU service providers by providing tenant domains for securing and isolating data as well as tenant-level QOS controls to provide performance fairness.
• Vast systems save customers money by being designed for hyperscale QLC flash and by applying next gen global data reduction algorithms, customers on average realize data reduction of nearly 3:1 across Vast’s fleet of deployments.
• Vast systems better protect data by providing support for n-1 and 1-n replication topologies and up to 1 million ransomware-proof snapshots.
• System expansions are always online, as are software upgrades.

This feature-rich platform delivers value to customers, so much so that the company has received a “100% willingness to recommend” by its customers, as reported by Gartner Peer Insights.

This announcement regarding NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD is the culmination of a long-standing collaboration between Vast Data and NVIDIA that dates back to 2016, when the 2 companies began work on building disaggregated systems and delivering AI solutions to customers. This contributed to the invention of Vast’s disaggregated, shared-everything (DASE) architecture, which positioned Vast as a provider of parallel and resilient infrastructure that makes standard NAS protocols suitable for DGX-class computing.

Since its announcement, DASE architecture has been described by IDC as “the storage architecture of the future.” The collaboration then deepened as Vast developed support for NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage and announced support for NVIDIA BlueField data processing units to enable customers to step into low-cost and modular flash infrastructure.

“Vast’s alliance and growing momentum with NVIDIA to help customers solve their greatest AI challenges takes another big step forward today,é said Renen Hallak, co- founder and CEO, Vast Data.” As AI and HPC interest, adoption, and implementation has exploded over the last year, the need for accelerated infrastructure has never been more acute. The Vast data platform brings to market a turnkey AI data center solution that is enabling the future of AI.”

“As enterprise AI and HPC adoption grows, organizations are seeking full-stack infrastructure that delivers performance and scale to turn their data into insight,” said Charlie Boyle, VP of DGX systems, NVIDIA. “Our collaboration with Vast Data enables customers to use the Vast Data Platform with their NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD environments to accelerate modern enterprise and cloud-based AI initiatives.“

“Vast and NVIDIA represent a formidable partnership in powering the next gen of AI and ML applications,” said Peter Rutten, performance-intensive computing solutions global research lead, IDC. “Together they deliver converged solutions that flexibly offer the capacity and exabyte scale customers require while simplifying AI infrastructure and data management to allow data scientists to turn information into insight quickly.“