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 Jeff Denworth presented at AI Field Day 1 |
This Presentation date is November 20, 2020 at 12:00-13:00.
Presenters: Jeff Denworth
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Introduction to VAST Data Universal Storage
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Jeff Denworth, CMO, introduces VAST Data’s universal storage product. It is designed to be a universal data platform for all applications, with all-NVMe performance, tier-5 cost efficiency, and exabyte scale for NAS and object storage. It is built on a modern foundation with disaggregated storage networking using NVMe-over-Fabrics, revolutionary flash economics using Intel QLC NAND SSDs, and persistent memory using Intel Optane SSDs. This session was sponsored by Intel.
Personnel: Jeff Denworth
Introduction to VAST Data LightSpeed: Storage Architecture for Machine Intelligence
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Jeff Denworth, CMO, introduces VAST Data LightSpeed, a storage platform for next-generation AI applications. The LightSpeed platform is designed to enable any platform to gain maximum performance via a single NFS mount point. NFS over RDMA can exceed multiple gigabyte per second performance using nconnect multipath. Denworth then discusses the need for high-speed NFS storage for AI applications and presents benchmarks for Nvidia DGX-A100 with VAST Data LightSpeed. He also presents a use case of AI imaging using LightSpeed. This session was sponsored by Intel.
Personnel: Howard Marks, Jeff Denworth