Shared Everything is VAST Data’s editorial and thought leadership platform, spotlighting the technical frontlines of AI infrastructure, datacenters, and cloud architecture. Through in-depth interviews, expert-led discussions, and narrative-driven content, we explore how the most advanced organizations are architecting for the Agentic Age—where AI, data, and compute converge. Whether it's the latest in GPU optimization, multitenancy design, or the future of data orchestration, we dive deep into the systems and strategies shaping tomorrow’s digital landscape.
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Shared Everything is VAST Data’s editorial and thought leadership platform, spotlighting the technical frontlines of AI infrastructure, datacenters, and cloud architecture. Through in-depth interviews, expert-led discussions, and narrative-driven content, we explore how the most advanced organizations are architecting for the Agentic Age—where AI, data, and compute converge. Whether it's the latest in GPU optimization, multitenancy design, or the future of data orchestration, we dive deep into the systems and strategies shaping tomorrow’s digital landscape.
How TACC Pushed Supercomputing Toward an IO-First Architecture
Shared Everything
37 minutes 43 seconds
1 month ago
How TACC Pushed Supercomputing Toward an IO-First Architecture
On today's episode of the Shared Everything podcast, Nicole is live at SC25 with Dan Stanzione, Executive Director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), for a look at why Horizon required a fundamental architectural reset. Stanzione explains how rising GPU power densities, liquid cooled 20 megawatt racks, and an increasingly irregular IO profile forced TACC to abandon long held assumptions about parallel filesystems. Years of watching billions of tiny files, unpredictable 4k and 64k reads, and metadata stalls slow entire machines led them to an all solid state tier and a VAST global namespace built for resilience, consistency, and shared access at scale. He describes how this model simplifies AI and hybrid scientific workflows, why the file system has always been the real point of failure, and how Horizon’s architecture reflects a world where IO, not FLOPS, determines what large scale science can do next.
Shared Everything
Shared Everything is VAST Data’s editorial and thought leadership platform, spotlighting the technical frontlines of AI infrastructure, datacenters, and cloud architecture. Through in-depth interviews, expert-led discussions, and narrative-driven content, we explore how the most advanced organizations are architecting for the Agentic Age—where AI, data, and compute converge. Whether it's the latest in GPU optimization, multitenancy design, or the future of data orchestration, we dive deep into the systems and strategies shaping tomorrow’s digital landscape.
