“VAST delivered an all-flash solution at a cost that not only allowed us to upgrade to all-flash and eliminate our storage tiers, but also saved us enough to pay for more GPUs to accelerate our research. With VAST’s groundbreaking flash economics, the Martinos Center has started a strategic shift to all-flash Universal Storage to help accelerate image analysis across massive troves of MRI and PET scan data, while simultaneously eliminating the uptime challenges previously faced with hard-drive based storage systems. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and with the US Department of Energy.
On the heels of its growing collaboration with NVIDIA, VAST is being selected by a variety of industry-leading customers who are adopting AI to modernize their application environment, including new LightSpeed customer wins at the Athinoula A. “VAST Data’s integration of GPUDirect Storage in the new LightSpeed platform delivers a distributed NFS storage appliance that supports the intense demands of AI workloads.”
“At AI scale, efficiency is essential to application performance, which is why it’s critical to avoid any unnecessary data copies between compute and storage systems,” said Charlie Boyle, vice president and general manager of DGX Systems at NVIDIA. The LightSpeed concept is simple: no HPC storage muss, no budgetary fuss, and performance that is only limited by your ambition.” “Let the data scientists dance with their data by always feeding their AI systems with training and inference data in real-time. “Today, VAST is throwing down the gauntlet to declare that customers no longer need to choose between simplicity, speed and cost when shaping their AI infrastructure strategy,” said Jeff Denworth, Co-founder and CMO at VAST Data. By eliminating all bottlenecks, VAST and NVIDIA have paved the way for GPU-efficient computing using the industry standard NFS file system. In initial testing, VAST demonstrated over 90GB/s of peak read throughput via a single NVIDIA DGX-2 client, nearly 3X the performance of VAST's NFS-over-RDMA and nearly 50X the performance of standard TCP-based NFS.
GPUDirect enables customers running NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate access to data and avoid extra data copies between storage and the GPU by avoiding the CPU and CPU memory altogether. NFS Support for NVIDIA GPUDirect ® Storage: VAST supports best-in-class performance with NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage technology, currently in beta. LightSpeed enclosures help customers increase their computing power with less hardware. This makes the system ideal for read-heavy I/O workloads like those found within modern deep learning frameworks, such as computer vision (PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.), Natural Language Processing (BERT), Big Data (Apache Spark), Genomics ( NVIDIA Clara™ Parabricks) and more. By eliminating storage tiering, the exabyte-scale DASE cluster architecture ensures that every I/O request is serviced in real-time, thereby eliminating the storage bottleneck for training processors.ĢX Faster AI Storage HW Platform: VAST’s new LightSpeed NVMe storage enclosure delivers 2X the AI throughput compared to previous generations of VAST hardware. LightSpeed is both a product and a concept, designed to address all facets of storage deployment that system architects face when designing next-generation AI infrastructure, that includes:įlash at HDD Economics to Eliminate Tiering: VAST’s Disaggregated, Shared Everything (DASE) storage architecture was invented to break down the barriers to performance, capacity and scale - where revolutionary flash economics make it finally possible to afford flash for all of a customer’s training data. Dubbed LightSpeed, this new concept combines the light-touch of VAST’s simple NAS appliance experience with leadership-class performance for NVIDIA ® GPU-based and AI processor-based computing, taking the guesswork and configuration out of scaling up AI infrastructure. 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - VAST Data, the storage company breaking decades-old tradeoffs, today announced the availability of its next generation storage architecture designed to eliminate the compromises of storage scale, performance and efficiency to help organizations harness the power of AI as they evolve their data agenda in the age of machine intelligence. New Solution Combines VAST’s Disaggregated, Web-Scale Architecture with State-of-the-Art Hardware, NVIDIA GPU Application Acceleration and Reference Architectures to Democratize Flash for AI Computing
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