HPC Press Release: Swiss Vault Receives Honors in 2025
Swiss Vault has been honored at the 22nd Annual HPCwire Awards during SC25 in St. Louis, receiving the Readers’/Editors’ Choice Award for Best HPC Storage Product or Technology. The HPCwire Awards celebrate innovation and achievement across the global high-performance computing community, with winners selected through both community voting and editorial review. HPCwire leadership emphasized that despite rapid advances in AI, traditional HPC continues to drive critical scientific and engineering breakthroughs—many of which deserve greater recognition.
The award highlights Swiss Vault’s breakthrough file system, VaultFS, designed for long-term, sustainable, and self-managing data storage. VaultFS offers automated, non-disruptive upgrades, simplifies installation for IT teams, and extends the usable life of hardware through self-healing capabilities—reducing e-waste and energy consumption. It also unlocks efficient use of high-capacity SMR drives, making enterprise-scale storage more accessible and cost-effective. With its focus on sustainability, scalability, and active access to large data archives, Swiss Vault positions itself as a leader in next-generation, environmentally conscious data infrastructure.