VAST Data - Datacenter/chips/systems with a side of sauce. Former Dep Ed Chief @TheRegister, Co-founder @TheNextPlatform among others
Joined February 2013
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Nicole Hemsoth Prickett retweeted
I spent the last few months preparing tech docs for DataEnclave, VAST's new confidential computing runtime. Learned tons about how attestation, TEEs, etc REALLY work. Help from VAST's R&D wizards made it possible to pull this together so quickly.
vastdata.com/blog/introducin…
Almost 40 episodes of the Shared Everything podcast and we’ve covered a lot of ground…
From #datacenter design to #AI factories and #inference. #HPC and supercomputing. GPUs, KV cache and networking. Power, cooling and density. Flash economics. Kafka and real-time data. Genomics at the edge. Quantum computing. #Cybersecurity. Autonomous systems. Agentic AI. Sovereign infrastructure. Cloud architecture. Storage, data platforms..the list goes on but at the heart is keeping an eye on what happens when the old assumptions underneath all of these stop working.
We’ve talked to the people actually building these systems, running them at scale and figuring out what comes next.
If you want a technical tour through how computing is changing underneath AI, there are now nearly 40 conversations waiting for you.
Shared Everything from VAST Data - add to your lineup here shared-everything.simplecast…
Nicole Hemsoth Prickett retweeted
I recently got to talk to @NicoleHemsoth about an atypical topic in #HPC and #AI infrastructure: failure. Not the hardware kind, but the decision kind. We spoke about three failures behind three successful systems, why they happened, and what I learned.
vastdata.com/blog/failure-is…
Nicole Hemsoth Prickett retweeted
If CPUs become more like GPUs, what do we need GPUs for except AI training? $NVDA $AMD $INTEL $ARM
nextplatform.com/compute/202…
Inference doesn’t break on compute these days, it's GPU memory that's the choke. But Dynamo + VAST turns KV cache into a first-class, shareable system resource so GPUs stop redoing context. Cool stuff vastdata.com/blog/how-nvidia…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on VAST Data today at VAST FWD in SLC - linkedin.com/posts/renenh_if…
Nicole Hemsoth Prickett retweeted
Unitree robot's incredible martial arts performance at the Chinese New Year gala.
And there's a final boss at the end.
Nicole Hemsoth Prickett retweeted
Never, in my entire life, have I seen Western North Carolina look like this.
Absolutely, stunningly, beautiful ❄️
Nicole Hemsoth Prickett retweeted
NERSC just got their first rack of the Doudna early access system from Dell--36 nodes of GB200 NVL4 in a 50OU rack. It's TALL!
#HPC
Source: linkedin.com/posts/national-…
Nicole Hemsoth Prickett retweeted
@glennklockwood ‘s SC25 recap is out:
blog.glennklockwood.com/2025…
Nicole Hemsoth Prickett retweeted
Years ago, when we started @VAST_Data , @TACC was an organization we both looked up to and worked hard to collaborate with. Years later, our dreams are now reality and we're fortunate to work with some of the brightest academic computing minds solving some of the largest computational challenges. What TACC gets? Scale, uptime, simplicity... all of that is better for their users' scientific pursuits.
It's our privilege to work with the team at TACC.
VAST + Exascale is happening.
tacc.utexas.edu/news/latest-…
Nicole Hemsoth Prickett retweeted
Holy heck, @VASTDataAI
$1.17 billion deal with @CoreWeave . Aligning roadmaps to deliver a fully integrated and optimized AI stack to customers.
Here's what is interesting...
VAST and @nvidia have a very tight relationship. Not one of these "they are on our price sheet" kind of partnerships, but a "how do we deeply integrate to deliver absolute performance" kind of relationships.
And as we know, NVIDIA and CoreWeave are connected at the hip.
Most of CoreWeave's business to date has been focused on training the largest players in the market. Over time, its model will shift to support the upcoming inference wave in support of the enterprise. And VAST's AI Operating System will be the engine/platform that drives this support.
Big move from both. And if anybody is questioning VAST's place in the market, hopefully this helps bring a little clarity.
Wow.
vastdata.com/press-releases/…
Nicole Hemsoth Prickett retweeted
We’re proud to expand our long-standing partnership with @VAST_Data with a $1.17B commercial agreement today. Combining Vast's industry-leading data platform and CoreWeave's purpose-built AI infrastructure, we will push the boundaries of artificial intelligence together.
reuters.com/technology/nvidi…
Nicole Hemsoth Prickett retweeted
I'm going to paraphrase @VAST_Data's CEO Renen Hallak on this one:
"As we build our company, we aspire to the example set by great companies built before us. We try to follow their path, from one milestone to the next.
From selling $1M, to $10M, to $100M, to $1B. From burning cash, to breaking even, to profitability. Each milestone is an additional step toward VAST Data being one of the greats.
And then, one day, we realize we have stumbled upon a milestone our predecessors have never reached. We realize that going forward, there is no precedence and there is no other choice but to forge our own path."
Today's announcement with CoreWeave is testament to a vibrant partnership between two AI infrastructure pioneers, and a signal to the world that the tomorrow's intelligence will not come from yesterday's technology. We are honored to work with their team, and humbly accept the challenge to help CW soar to even greater heights.
reuters.com/technology/nvidi…
Reuters: NVIDIA-backed VAST Data inks $1.17 billion AI deal with CoreWeave reuters.com/technology/nvidi…