We are thrilled to welcome Glenn K. Lockwood as Principal Technical Strategist at VAST Data! In a fresh Q&A with Nicole Hemsoth Prickett, Glenn unpacks the real challenges of AI at scale, from flexible architecture to the future of inferencing data. He even shares why VAST was his clear

Sovereign LLMs demand in-country compute+storage. Lambda's VP of Infra on “aggregated edge”: 50MW regional sites, 1MW liquid-cooled AI racks/air-cooled storage/local power and low-latency links. vastdata.com/sharedeverythi…

Legionnaires outbreaks from droplets in the air/machine created aerosols. How many new cooling towers have been built in the last few years for datacenters? Startup idea: large-scale cooling tower decontamination apple.news/AiqyC8j_6RECCd…

How Saudi Aramco uses AI to cut downtime 40%, slash maintenance costs 30%, halve gas flaring, and launch METABRAIN, a 7B-parameter model shaping project management’s future. vastdata.com/sharedeverythi…

New dataset from PNNL models where US datacenters could be built through 2035 testing demand growth (3.7–15%/yr) & market vs cost tradeoffs to gauge grid + water stress. Full dataset - osti.gov/biblio/2571680

Times Square today 🙌

#HPC China's National University of Defense Technology details MIST rethinking MPI startup/shutdown by removing global operations, it cuts MPI_Init by 32–78% and MPI_Finalize by 29–85% on Tianhe-2A. ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/docum…

OpenAI’s Richard Ho warns that long-lived AI agents will break today’s systems, demanding global-scale infrastructure with new memory, networking, and hardware trust. vastdata.com/sharedeverythi…

AI only becomes real when the infrastructure can hold it. CVS and Pfizer come from different worlds but found the same truth. Scale depends on latency and governance. vastdata.com/sharedeverythi…

State Street’s Anusha Nerella defines financial AI as a systems race of real-time data fusion, sub-millisecond inference, immutable audit trails, and adaptive agent training. vastdata.com/sharedeverythi…

China’s newest Sunway supercomputer just ran neural network quantum chemistry at record scale (37m cores modeling 120 spin orbitals) with near-perfect efficiency. vastdata.com/sharedeverythi… - #HPC #Quantum #AI #quantumcomputing

This is a big deal #HPC - ECMWF’s new #AI model delivers ten-day forecasts in minutes on a single #GPU, replacing equations with learned patterns to predict the atmosphere from memory. Quite a leap, will find out more at #SC25 - vastdata.com/sharedeverythi…

NVIDIA announced seven new DOE #HPC systems for #AI, including a 100K Blackwell system at Argonne. Oracle is a partner, just like OLCF-6/Discovery. Details on the ALCF systems are scant, and is not the Aurora follow-on. Wild times. nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-pa…

Reuters: NVIDIA-backed VAST Data inks $1.17 billion AI deal with CoreWeave reuters.com/technology/nvi…

I'm going to paraphrase VΛST Data's CEO Renen Hallak on this one: "As we build our company, we aspire to the example set by great companies built before us. We try to follow their path, from one milestone to the next. From selling $1M, to $10M, to $100M, to $1B. From burning

We’re proud to expand our long-standing partnership with VΛST Data with a $1.17B commercial agreement today. Combining Vast's industry-leading data platform and CoreWeave's purpose-built AI infrastructure, we will push the boundaries of artificial intelligence together.

Holy heck, VAST Data $1.17 billion deal with CoreWeave . Aligning roadmaps to deliver a fully integrated and optimized AI stack to customers. Here's what is interesting... VAST and NVIDIA have a very tight relationship. Not one of these "they are on our price sheet"

Years ago, when we started VΛST Data , TACC was an organization we both looked up to and worked hard to collaborate with. Years later, our dreams are now reality and we're fortunate to work with some of the brightest academic computing minds solving some of the largest

The king of #HPC at #SC25. No matter what becomes of the Top 500 supercomputing benchmark, Dr. Dongarra created community through (friendly) competition. Always my favorite conversation year to year.