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Press coverage, podcasts, conference talks, and Supercomputing demos — where Zettar and its data-movement work show up.

2025
Dec 17, 2025arXiv

Reexamining Paradigms of End-to-End Data Movement

Fang et al. publish the definitive case that the network is rarely the bottleneck — and how holistic co-design realizes line-rate movement from the edge to 100 Gbps and beyond.

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Dec 2025NCHC · Taiwan

NCHC deploys Zettar Mini appliances in Taiwan

Taiwan’s National Center for High-performance Computing puts two Zettar Mini data-movement appliances into production across its Tainan and Taichung datacenters.

2024
Nov 20, 2024HPCwire

Zettar Advances Data Movement in Collaboration with MiTAC Computing and NVIDIA

Announces a production-ready solution leveraging NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs for high-volume data operations, achieving 500 TB daily transfers without traditional servers.

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Jun 4–5, 2024HPCKP Annual Meeting

Revolutionize Large-Scale Data Transport. Unleash AI and HPC

Barcelona presentation examining current data-movement solutions in the post-ChatGPT era and recommending updated approaches.

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Feb 20, 2024Blocks & Files

Data speed limit breakers: Vcinity and Zettar

Blocks & Files profiles Zettar among the companies breaking data-movement speed limits — moving petabytes across continental distances for HPC and AI.

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2023
Nov 14, 2023HPCwire

Zettar Unveils Data Movement Appliance at SC23 in Partnership with AIC and Intel

The world's first data-movement appliance using IPUs with built-in offload capabilities for a range of data-movement scenarios.

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Feb 15, 2023HPC-AI Advisory Council · 14th Stanford Conf.

6X ESG Benefits via DPU/IPU with an Embedded Unified Data Mover

Explores how DPUs/IPUs with built-in data-movement capabilities address edge-to-core paradigms and ESG objectives.

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Jan 17, 2023Intel · Podcast

How Cloud-to-Edge Technology Helps Handle the Immense Amount of Data Generated by Practitioners

Healthcare data-management discussion featuring Zettar CEO Chin Fang and Intel's Michael McManus on data movement and storage.

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2022
Dec 14, 2022NVIDIA · SC22 Virtual Theater

Data Migration with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs

Zettar to demonstrate data migration with NVIDIA DPUs at SC22. Presentation by Dr. Chin Fang (Zettar CEO).

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Nov 14, 2022HPCwire

Zettar to Demonstrate Data Migration with NVIDIA DPU at SC22

World-first showcase of DPU offload capabilities for diverse data-movement tasks.

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Nov 14, 2022NVIDIA Blog

Going the Distance: NVIDIA Platform Solves HPC Problems at the Edge

Zettar's data-migration solution consolidates the task to 4U of space versus 13U for x86 alternatives.

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Nov 14, 2022HPCwire

NVIDIA Announces Platform to Solve HPC Problems at the Edge

BlueField DPU platform for offloading networking, storage, and security services; Zettar demonstrates the migration solution.

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2021
Dec 15, 2021NVIDIA · Virtual Theater (SC21)

Accelerating At-Scale AI Data Migration — 3 PB/day

Zettar, DataDirect Networks, and NVIDIA collaborated on a fully optimized at-scale AI data-migration showcase for SC21. Presentation by Dr. Chin Fang (Zettar CEO).

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Nov 14, 2021HPCwire

Zettar to Showcase Accelerating At-Scale AI Data Migration at SC21

A fully optimized enterprise AI data-migration solution developed with DDN and NVIDIA.

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Nov 14, 2021Forbes

NVIDIA Envisions AI For Everything

Analyst Thomas Coughlin describes the NVIDIA/DDN/Zettar testbed for large-scale AI training feeding from edge, cloud, or on-premises storage.

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Jun 21, 2021HPC Knowledge Meeting · Barcelona

Simplify Large-Scale Data Management with a Unified Data Mover

Presentation by Dr. Chin Fang (Zettar CEO) at HPC Knowledge Meeting 2021.

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Mar 5, 2021Rice Oil & Gas HPC Conf. · Houston

High-Performance Data Movement Services — DTNaaS

Zettar and the U.S. DOE Energy Sciences Network presented at the 2021 Rice Oil & Gas HPC Conference. Speakers: Dr. Chin Fang (Zettar CEO) and Dr. Ezra Kissel (ESnet).

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Feb 3, 2021InsideHPC

Elbencho — A New Storage Benchmark for AI

A storage benchmark suite enabling users to test storage systems against actual workloads rather than predefined scenarios, across single or coordinated multiple clients.

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Jan 27, 2021JSA · Podcast

Stories from Stanford: Cloud Storage and the Future of Moving Data at Scale & Speed

Podcast featuring Zettar CEO Chin Fang on his career evolution from Stanford to founding Zettar Inc.

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Jan 8, 2021Forbes

Data Movement Types Impact Storage Requirements

Thomas Coughlin analysis, based on a SLAC technical note, examining how data-movement types affect storage requirements for machine-generated data.

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2020
Jun 12, 2020Forbes

Data Center Infrastructure and Transport

Thomas Coughlin commentary highlighting Zettar's predictable site-to-site transfer performance and symmetry features.

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Mar 4, 2020Rice Oil & Gas HPC Conf.

Moving Massive Amounts of Data Across Any Distance Efficiently

Zettar presentation covering intense data-movement experience, the current state of the art, common misconceptions, and multi-vendor trial results.

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Jan 8, 2020Bio-IT World

How To Improve Biopharmaceutical Research Data Utilization?

Guest commentary identifying common IT-team mistakes that reduce research-data mobility in the biopharmaceutical industry.

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2019
Nov 13, 2019ICM · University of Warsaw

Poland–Singapore Data Transfer Over New CAE-1 100G Trans-Continental Link

A joint production trial by ICM University of Warsaw, A*STAR Computational Resource Centre Singapore, and Zettar Inc.

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Nov 11, 2019InsideHPC

Production Trial Shows Global Science Possible with CAE-1 100Gbps Link

Coverage of the Poland–Singapore trial, highlighting modern TCP's effectiveness versus proprietary UDP protocols.

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Apr 16, 2019Bio-IT World

Is A Science DMZ A Key To Solving Poor Data Utilization?

Guest commentary examining how network-security setup impacts data-transfer performance, and firewall limitations.

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Apr 8, 2019ESnet

ESnet's Networking Prowess on Display at Singapore Conference

Describes Zettar's access to a 5,000-mile 100Gbps loop, enabling pre-production trials and the Supercomputing Asia 2019 Data Mover Challenge victory.

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Mar 13, 2019NSCC Singapore

Supercomputing Asia 2019 Data Mover Challenge — Winners Announced

Zettar announced overall winner, achieving a 68 Gbps transfer rate between Chicago and NSCC (Singapore).

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Feb 11, 2019Forbes

Wicked Fast Data Transport

Thomas Coughlin article describing Zettar's record-setting pre-production trial with 96% bandwidth utilization of an available 80 Gbps.

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2018
Oct 25, 2018ThinkParQ GmbH

BeeGFS-Based Burst Buffer Enables World-Record Hyperscale Data Distribution

Describes Zettar's three world records using AIC storage servers, the BeeGFS parallel file system, and Intel NVMe SSDs — including 1 PB in 29 hours under an 80 Gbps cap with full TLS encryption.

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Oct 23, 2018Machine Design

DOE Tests Newest Information Superhighway

Coverage of Zettar's world-record pre-production trial, highlighting value to U.S. DOE distributed, data-intensive projects.

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Oct 17, 2018ESnet

ESnet's Network, Software Help SLAC Researchers in Record-Setting Transfer of 1 Petabyte of Data

ESnet's official report on Zettar's petabyte transfer achievement and its implications for DOE-funded projects.

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Oct 5, 2018InsideHPC

Big Data over Big Distance: Zettar Moves a Petabyte over 5,000 Miles in 29 Hours

Description of the September 2018 record achievement, highlighting the ability to move multiple petabytes weekly.

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Oct 4, 2018AIC · Press Release

Zettar Transferred, with Encryption, One Petabyte of Data in Just 29 Hours Using AIC Servers

AIC's announcement of the joint world-record trial involving AIC, Zettar, Intel, and ThinkParQ technology partners.

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Aug 17, 2018Bio-IT World

Dealing With Fast-Growing Data With Hyperscale Data Distribution

Introduces the hyperscale-data concept to biopharmaceutical IT teams addressing exponential data growth.

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