Western Digital, a U.S. data storage device corporations, said on the 17th that it will participate in "Supercomputing 2025" to unveil technologies needed to build artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) environments. Supercomputing 2025 runs in St. Louis, United States, from the 16th to the 21st.
At this event, Western Digital will unveil new solutions and partnerships to boost performance, capacity, flexibility, and scalability for AI and HPC customer companies. A Western Digital representative said, "Through strategic partnerships, we are expanding access to large-scale storage (data storage devices) and providing our advanced UltraSMR technology to a broader range of customers beyond existing hyperscalers (large-scale data center operating corporations)."
Western Digital supports securing high cost-efficiency even in large-scale data environments through a platform (Ultrastar JBOD) based on shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology. Its disaggregated storage solution (OpenFlex Data24) and controller (RapidFlex NVMe-oF) incorporate technologies, developed in collaboration with AI infrastructure corporations such as PeakAIO, that can resolve bottlenecks arising in AI and HPC workloads.
Western Digital supports customers through its test lab in Colorado Springs, the "Open Composable Compatibility Lab" (OCCL). Dafustore, Pison, SanDisk, and newly, Asus, Rasil Storage, Open-E, Solidigm, and Swiss Vault have joined the OCCL ecosystem.
Kurt Chan, head of Western Digital's Platform Business Unit (vice president), said, "Western Digital is proving its leadership in the industry by enabling AI and HPC workloads to scale efficiently in any environment," adding, "Western Digital's platform is the engine that accelerates innovation."