Vast

The VAST Data storage system is a NVME based all-flash storage system best suited for read intensive workloads, which require consistent low latencies (e.g. AI training). This storage system can be accessed with RDMA and GPU Direct Storage (cuFile API) from the GPU nodes of Grete and is also available on all other compute islands.

The VAST system is backing our central software installation, all home directories and the $PROJECT directories for NHR and KISSKI. It is also used for data pools and our AI services.

The total capacity is 1.9 PiB.