I am attending part of Ray Summit 2025 on behalf of VAST Data and giving a 15-minute lightning talk. Here’s what I’m thinking about talking about:
Title: Enabling a Dynamic Data Plane for Ray with the VAST AI Operating System
Abstract: Ray orchestrates the intelligent part of AI—compute—but assumes that persistent data lives in a far-away, unintelligent world. VAST’s AI Operating System challenges that assumption by matching Ray’s dynamic, resource-aware orchestration with a data plane that is equally parallel, expressive, and programmable. In this talk, we will describe how VAST AI OS not only supports essential data platform features such as exabyte namespaces and terabytes per second of bandwidth, but higher-order capabilities such as fine-grained snapshots and native eventing infrastructure that allow data to actively participate in the workflows and pipelines that drive compute orchestration.