VMblog: If you were giving an SC24 attendee a quick overview of the company, what would you say? How would you describe the company?
Tom Paquette: Graid Technology is transforming what's possible for high performance computing. As the creators of SupremeRAIDTM, the world's first and only GPU-based RAID, we are committed to helping enterprises unlock the full potential of their NVMe SSDs. SupremeRAIDTM enables unprecedented speed, scalability, and efficiency for the most demanding applications, including AI, machine learning, media & entertainment, and high-performance computing. Through our global partnerships with industry leaders like Supermicro, NVIDIA, and TD SYNNEX, we deliver cutting-edge storage performance technology that maximizes data throughput, minimizes latency, and ensures data resilience across enterprise environments.
VMblog: What kind of message will an attendee hear from you this year? What will they take back to help sell their management team and decision makers? Explain your technology.
Paquette: At SC24, we'll be sharing how SupremeRAIDTM redefines what's possible in NVMe SSD performance, particularly for organizations with performance-hungry workloads like AI, machine learning, and HPC. Attendees will learn that with SupremeRAIDTM, enterprises can access the full potential of their NVMe SSDs while ensuring data protection and reliability across distributed environments. We'll demonstrate that our GPU-based architecture eliminates traditional RAID bottlenecks, providing unmatched speed, efficiency, and scalability. The key message? SupremeRAIDTM is the ultimate RAID solution to maximize NVMe SSD performance for any high-performance application.
VMblog: Data movement and storage continue to be critical challenges in HPC. What innovations is your company bringing to market to address these bottlenecks, and what performance improvements can customers expect?
Paquette: SupremeRAIDTM tackles the critical challenges of data movement and storage bottlenecks by unlocking the full performance potential of NVMe SSDs. Its GPU-based RAID architecture accelerates RAID processing, significantly reducing latency and enhancing overall system efficiency. Customers can expect substantial performance improvements, including higher I/O rates, reduced latency, and faster access to mission-critical data. This is particularly vital in HPC environments, where delays can severely impact workflows and time-sensitive operations.
Additionally, our global technology partnerships with recognized leaders such as NVIDIA, Supermicro, KIOXIA, ARM, and others enable us to deliver cutting-edge storage performance innovations. SupremeRAIDTM integrates seamlessly into these infrastructures, offering the scalability and flexibility required to meet the demands of AI, machine learning, and HPC workloads. By optimizing NVMe RAID performance, SupremeRAIDTM ensures data moves at the speed of modern compute power, providing the reliability and performance necessary to excel in high-performance computing environments.
VMblog: Thinking about your company's technologies, what are the types of problems you solve for an SC24 attendee?
Paquette: Great question! SupremeRAIDTM addresses the critical challenge of bottlenecked storage performance in high-demand computing environments. Traditional RAID solutions simply cannot keep pace with the performance capabilities of modern NVMe SSDs, creating a serious performance bottleneck for organizations running AI/ML, big data analytics, and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. SupremeRAIDTM solves this by offering GPU-accelerated RAID that enables enterprises to fully leverage their NVMe storage without sacrificing data protection or reliability.
VMblog: What major industry challenges or technological bottlenecks do you see your solutions addressing in the high-performance computing (HPC) landscape, particularly in relation to emerging AI/ML workloads?
Paquette: In the HPC landscape, particularly with AI/ML workloads, one of the biggest challenges is the storage performance bottleneck. As AI/ML workloads scale, they generate massive datasets that require high throughput and low latency for timely training and inference. Traditional RAID solutions struggle to meet the I/O demands of modern NVMe SSDs, resulting in delays. SupremeRAIDTM solves this by leveraging a GPU-based RAID architecture that eliminates these bottlenecks, unlocking the full performance of NVMe SSDs for real-time data access. This results in faster data throughput, higher IOPS, and reduced latency-critical for AI/ML models relying on rapid data movement.
As AI/ML workloads grow more complex, they also require scalable infrastructure. SupremeRAIDTM provides the scalability needed to handle increasing datasets without performance degradation, allowing enterprises to future-proof their AI/ML environments. By enabling fast, efficient data processing, SupremeRAIDTM empowers organizations to maximize their computational power, ensuring optimal performance for both current and future workloads.
VMblog: The convergence of HPC and AI continues to reshape the industry. How are your solutions enabling organizations to bridge traditional HPC workloads with new AI/ML demands, and what unique capabilities will you be demonstrating at the event?
Paquette: SupremeRAIDTM enables organizations to seamlessly bridge traditional HPC workloads with modern AI/ML demands by offering a storage performance solution that can handle both environments with ease. With its GPU-based architecture, SupremeRAIDTM supports the high-throughput and low-latency requirements of AI/ML while ensuring the reliability and robustness needed for traditional HPC workloads. At SC24, we'll be demonstrating SupremeRAIDTM's ability to accelerate NVMe SSD performance in both scenarios, showing how enterprises can optimize their storage infrastructure for today's and tomorrow's high-performance applications.
VMblog: As we see growing demand for "AI supercomputers," how is your company adapting its product strategy to address this evolving market segment? What differentiates your approach from others in the space?
Paquette: As AI supercomputers drive unprecedented demand for storage performance, Graid Technology has strategically focused on leveraging GPU-based RAID architecture to eliminate the bottlenecks associated with traditional RAID solutions. SupremeRAIDTM is specifically designed for AI and machine learning environments, enabling NVMe SSDs to perform at their peak by maximizing throughput, minimizing latency, and ensuring data resilience. Our approach not only accelerates data movement for AI workloads but also provides scalability and efficiency that keep pace with the rapidly evolving demands of AI-driven applications, setting us apart from traditional solutions.
VMblog: As security concerns continue to grow in the HPC space, especially with the integration of AI workloads, what approaches and technologies is your company developing to ensure both performance and protection?
Paquette: While SupremeRAIDTM is not a dedicated data security solution, we understand that security is paramount in HPC environments, especially with the increasing complexity of AI workloads. SupremeRAIDTM ensures data protection through advanced redundancy features that are fully compatible with encryption technologies, allowing enterprises to maintain high performance without compromising security. We partner and integrate seamlessly with cutting-edge data security solutions that meet the most stringent government standards. Additionally, because SupremeRAIDTM is built on a GPU-based architecture, it delivers faster recovery times in the event of failure, minimizing potential downtime and safeguarding valuable data.
VMblog: In closing, can you give readers a few examples of how your offerings are unique? What are your differentiators? What sets you apart from the competition?
Paquette: SupremeRAIDTM is unique in that it's the world's first and only GPU-based RAID solution, which is a game-changer in terms of performance and scalability. What sets us apart is our ability to eliminate the RAID bottleneck by using a GPU to accelerate RAID processes, allowing full utilization of NVMe SSD speeds. This is particularly crucial for environments where performance is non-negotiable, such as AI/ML workloads, media & entertainment, and HPC. Additionally, SupremeRAIDTM supports both NVMe and NVMe-over-Fabrics, making it highly adaptable to modern data infrastructures and future-proof for evolving storage needs.
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