The next generation of supercomputing demands a unified data platform that can support simulation, training, inference, and emerging agentic AI workflows at scale. Modern AI factories require continuous data access, ultra-low latency, and the ability to keep GPUs and accelerators fully utilized across diverse workloads.
VAST Data’s strategy reflects this shift: extending beyond high-performance storage into a data-centric AI operating environment purpose-built for HPC and AI. By tightly integrating data services with GPU-accelerated infrastructure and modern networking technologies, this approach minimizes data movement, reduces latency, and simplifies operations—key requirements for large-scale supercomputing centers and national AI initiatives.
At ISC 2026, the supercomputing community stands at a clear inflection point. Traditional HPC architectures are rapidly evolving into AI-driven supercomputing platforms and AI factories, where massive data throughput, extreme performance, and operational simplicity are no longer optional—they are foundational.
The VAST vision highlights a future where supercomputing systems evolve into fully integrated AI factories—platforms where data, compute, and intelligence operate as one. The result is faster time to insight, higher system utilization, and an infrastructure foundation ready for the next decade of scientific discovery, industrial simulation, and artificial intelligence.
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Hall H, #L01 HPC Solutions Forum
Modeling and simulation has historically led the HPC community to build systems that run one large application as fast as possible, but the emergence of large-scale AI workflows is driving new fundamental requirements. Training, fine-tuning, and inference each has unique computational motifs and data access patterns, and integrating these workloads with each other and with traditional simulation requires rethinking long-held beliefs in HPC system design. Join Glenn to hear how HPC and modern AI fit together!
