The University of Pisa Transforms Research with the VAST Data Platform
University of Pisa Powers Scientific AI with VAST
The University of Pisa consolidated 12PB of data into a unified platform to accelerate AI and HPC workloads.
Industry
Higher Education
Use Case
Artificial Intelligence
HPC
Overview
The University of Pisa, founded in 1343, manages a massive scientific computing footprint spanning 25,000 CPU/GPU cores and 12PB of data across multi-vendor silos, supporting workloads like AI drug design simulations and life sciences research.
Solution
The university selected VAST to centralize its HPC infrastructure. VAST provided a unified, scalable private cloud foundation that connects seamlessly to NVIDIA DGX H100 nodes via InfiniBand and Ethernet while utilizing flexible Gemini licensing.
Results
With production deployment completed in just one day, the University of Pisa eliminated data bottlenecks, easily saturated 200Gb/s interconnects, maximized GPU utilization, and established linear scalability to support expanding scientific research.