University of Utah Accelerates Research with VAST
University of Utah Center for HPC uses VAST to simplify administration and accelerate research workflows.
Industry
Higher Education
Use Case
Artificial Intelligence
Overview
The Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) at the University of Utah provides advanced research computing services. The center supports hundreds of varied scientific research applications, ranging from genomics and chemistry to machine learning and computational simulations.
Solution
The University of Utah deployed the VAST AI OS to establish a scalable, all-flash storage environment. The solution unifies diverse workloads across file and object storage protocols into a single consolidated namespace to power high-performance research.
Results
VAST simplified the university's complex storage environment and drastically reduced administrative overhead. The infrastructure delivers dependable, high-throughput data access to power hundreds of diverse research applications, eliminating performance bottlenecks across clusters.