VAST
A storage-platform vendor supplying all-flash file and object namespaces for AI clusters, and a common published source on checkpoint bandwidth requirements.
Also written as: VAST Data
Current numbers
800 Gb/sBlueField-4 DPU throughput (STX storage architecture), ~6x BlueField-3 compute; WEKA/VAST/DDN platforms
10% overlapreported checkpoint-overlap target in one VAST analysis; does not define the project drain window