5 November 2024, Tue |
12:08 PM
In an exciting development, VAST Data, a prominent AI data platform company, and CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider at the forefront of world-leading generative AI initiatives, have jointly unveiled a strategic partnership. This groundbreaking alliance is set to propel CoreWeave’s mission to provide highly scalable and high-performance cloud infrastructure catering to AI and accelerated computing workloads. CoreWeave has chosen the VAST Data Platform, renowned as the world’s first data platform meticulously designed for the AI era, to construct a global accelerated computing cloud powered by NVIDIA. This cloud will serve as a robust hub for deploying, managing, and safeguarding massive datasets, amounting to hundreds of petabytes, crucial for generative AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and visual effects (VFX) workloads.
The selection of the VAST Data Platform by CoreWeave followed exhaustive research and testing, solidifying its position as the backbone of all CoreWeave data centers. The VAST Data Platform possesses the indispensable attributes of scale, performance, and multi-tenant enterprise AI cloud capabilities required to empower the monumental applications of AI and LLM training and inference. These applications are revolutionizing industries ranging from business to science and society as a whole.
Michael Intrator, CEO and co-founder of CoreWeave, emphasized, “CoreWeave’s customers demand the most secure and scalable solutions on top of the industry’s fastest and most flexible infrastructure to keep their data safe. We’re delighted to partner with VAST Data to deliver a multi-tenant and zero-trust environment purpose-built for accelerated compute use cases like machine learning, VFX and rendering, Pixel Streaming, and batch processing that’s up to 35 times faster and 80 percent less expensive than legacy cloud providers. This partnership is rooted in a deep technical collaboration that will push the boundaries of data-driven accelerated computing to deliver the world’s most optimized AI cloud platform.”
Through this collaborative endeavor, CoreWeave and VAST Data harness NVIDIA technology to engineer an innovative data platform architecture. This architecture is tailored for large-scale, end-to-end data pipelines, paving the way for next-generation data services customized for AI workloads. An integral component of this initiative is the VAST Data Platform’s enterprise network-attached data store, certified for use with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD. It revolutionizes the landscape by eliminating tiers and infrastructure silos, simplifying and accelerating large-scale AI management to unprecedented levels of scalability and performance.
Renen Hallak, Founder and CEO of VAST Data, remarked, “Since our earliest days, VAST Data has had a single vision of building an architecture that could power the needs of the most demanding cloud-scale AI applications. We could not imagine a better cloud platform to realize this vision than what we’re creating with CoreWeave. We are humbled and honored to partner with the CoreWeave team to push the boundaries of modern AI computing and to build the infrastructure that will serve as the foundation of tomorrow’s AI-powered discoveries.”
