SNIA technical work and education advances will play a prominent role in the program at the 2019 Flash Memory Summit, August 5-8, 2019, in Santa Clara, CA. Over 40 speakers will present on key standards activities and education initiatives, including the first ever FMS Persistent Memory Hackathon hosted by SNIA. Check out your favorite technology (or all), and learn what SNIA is doing in these sessions:
SNIA-At-A-Glance
•SNIA Solid State Storage Reception Monday, August 5, 5:30 pm, Room 209/210
•SNIA Standards mainstage presentation by Michael Oros, SNIA Executive Director Tuesday, August 6, 2:50 pm, Mission City Ballroom
•Beer and Pizza with SNIA Experts on Persistent Memory/NVDIMM, Remote Persistent Memory/Open Fabrics, SNIA Swordfish, and more Tuesday, August 6, 7:15 pm – 9:00 pm, Ballrooms A-C
•SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative booth #820 featuring Persistent Memory demos and Performance, Computational Storage, and SNIA Swordfish discussions Tuesday, August 6, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm; Wednesday August 7, Noon to 7 pm; and Thursday, August 8, 10:00 am – 2:30 pm, Exhibit Hall
Persistent Memory
SNIA Persistent Memory Programming Tutorial and Introduction to the FMS Persistent Memory Hackathon hosted by SNIA Learn how programming persistent memory works and get started on your own “hacks” Monday, August 5, 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m, Room 209/210
•Persistent Memory Hackathon hosted by SNIA Bring your laptop and drop by anytime over the two days. SNIA persistent memory experts will support software developers in a live coding exercise to better understand the various tiers and modes of persistent memory and explore existing best practices. Tuesday, August 6 and Wednesday August 7, 8:30 am – 7:00 pm, Great America Ballroom Foyer
•Persistent Memory Track sessions sponsored by SNIA, JEDEC, and Open Fabrics Alliance See experts speak on Advances in Persistent Memory and PM Software and Applications in sessions PMEM-101-1 and PMEM-102-1 Tuesday, August 6, 8:30 am – 10:50 am in Ballroom E and 3:40 pm – 6:00 pm, in Great America Ballroom J
•Persistent Memory Track sessions sponsored by SNIA, JEDEC, and Open Fabrics Alliance The track continues with sessions on Remote Persistent Memory and the latest research in the field in sessions PMEM-201-1 and PMEM-202-1 Wednesday, August 7, 8:30 am – 10:50 am and 3:20 pm – 5:45 pm, Great America Meeting Room 3
Computational Storage
•Don’t miss the first ever Computational Storage track at FMS. This SNIA sponsored day features expert presentations and panels on Controllers and Technology, Deploying Solutions, Implementation Methods and Applications.(COMP-301A-1; COMP-301B-1; COMP-302A-1; COMP-302B-1) Thursday, August 8, 8:30 am – 10:50 am and 3:20 pm – 5:45 pm, in Ballroom A
Form Factors
•Learn what the SFF TA Technical Work Group has been doing in the session New Enterprise and Data Center SSD Form Factors (SSDS-201B-1) Wednesday, August 7, 9:45 am -10:50 am, in Great America Ballroom K
SNIA Swordfish
•Hear an update on Storage Management with Swordfish APIs for Open-Channel SSDs in session SOFT-201-1 Wednesday, August 7, 9:45 am -10:50 am, in Ballroom F
Object Drives
•Learn about Standardization for a Key Value Interface Underway at NVM Express and SNIA in session NVME-201-1 Wednesday, August 7,8:30 am – 9:35 am, in Great America Meeting Room 2
Registration is now open for the upcoming Persistent Programming in Real Life (PIRL) Conference – July 22-23, 2019 on the campus of the University of California San Diego (UCSD).
The 2019 PIRL event features a collaboration between UCSD Computer Science and Engineering, the Non-Volatile Systems Laboratory, and the SNIA to bring industry leaders in programming and developing persistent memory applications together for a two-day discussion on their experiences.
PIRL is a small conference, with attendance limited to under 100 people, including speakers. It will discuss what real developers have done, and want to do, with persistent memory. Most of the presentations will include demonstrations of live code showing new concepts. The conference is designed to be a meet-up for developers seeking to gain and share knowledge in the growing area of Persistent Memory development.
PIRL features a program of 18 presentations and 5 keynotes from industry-leading developers who have built real systems using persistent memory. They will share what they have done (and want to do) with persistent memory, what worked, what didn’t, what was hard, what was easy, what was surprising, and what they learned.
This year’s keynote presentations will be:
* Pratap Subrahmanyam (Vmware): Programming Persistent Memory In A Virtualized Environment Using Golang
* Zuoyu Tao (Oracle): Exadata With Persistent Memory – An Epic Journey
* Dan Williams (Intel Corporation): The 3rd Rail Of Linux Filesystems: A Survival Story
* Stephen Bates (Eideticom): Successfully Deploying Persistent Memory and Acceleration Via Compute Express Link
* Scott Miller (Dreamworks): Persistent Memory In Feature Animation Production
Other speakers include engineers from NetApp, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oracle, Sandia National Labs, Intel, SAP, Red Hat, and universities from around the world. Full details are available at the PIRL website.
PIRL will be held on the University of California San Diego campus at Scripps Forum, a state-of-the-art conference facility just a few meters from the beach. Discounted early registration ends July 10, so register today to ensure your seat.
Registration is now open for the upcoming Persistent Programming in Real Life (PIRL) Conference – July 22-23, 2019 on the campus of the University of California San Diego (UCSD).
The 2019 PIRL event features a collaboration between UCSD Computer Science and Engineering, the Non-Volatile Systems Laboratory, and the SNIA to bring industry leaders in programming and developing persistent memory applications together for a two-day discussion on their experiences. Read More
We hope you had time to check out our recent webcast on Applications Take Advantage of Persistent Memory. Raghu Kulkarni of Viking Technology, a member of the SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative, did a great job laying the foundation for an understanding of Persistent Memory today, just in time for the SNIA Persistent Memory Summit.
You can catch up on videos of Summit talks, along with the slides presented, here.
During the webcast, we had many interesting questions. Now, as promised, Raghu provides the answers. Happy reading, and we hope to see you at one of our upcoming webcasts or events.
Q. Does NVDIMM-N encryption lower the performance levels that you presented?Read More
It’s now less than three weeks for the next SNIA Persistent Memory Hackathon and Workshop. Our next workshop will be held in conjunction with the 10th Annual Non-Volatile Memory Workshop (http://nvmw.ucsd.edu/) at the University of California, San Diego on Sunday, March 10th from 2:00pm to 5:30pm.
The Hackathon at NVMW19 provides software developers with an understanding of the different tiers and modes of persistent memory, and gives an overview of the standard software libraries that are available to access persistent memory. Attendees will have access to system configured with persistent memory, software libraries, and sample source code. A variety of mentors will be available to provide tutorials and guide participants in the development of code. Learn more here.
Leave it to Rob Peglar, SNIA Board Member and the MC of SNIA’s 7th annual Persistent Memory Summit to capture the Summit day as persistently fun with a metric boatload of great presentations and speakers! And indeed it was a great day, with fourteen sessions presented by 23 speakers covering the breadth of where PM is in 2019 – real world, application-focused, and supported by multiple operating systems. Find a great recap on the Forbes blog by Tom Coughlin of Coughlin Associates.
Attendees enjoyed live demos of Persistent Memory technologies from AgigA Tech, Intel, SMART Modular, the SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative, and Xilinx. Learn more about what they presented here.
And for the first time as a part of the Persistent Memory Summit, SNIA hosted a Persistent Memory Programming Hackathon sponsored by Google Cloud Read More
With another successful year of SNIA Storage Developer Conferences (SDC) completed, SNIA on Storage spoke with Mark Carlson, SNIA Technical Council Co-Chair, on 2018 highlights and 2019 plans to educate and support this important technical community.
SNIA On Storage (SOS): In 2018, SNIA volunteers provided key resources and time supporting our storage developer community, a central focus for the Technical Council. What activities were the TC most pleased with in 2018?
Mark Carlson (MC): For the past several years we have been pushing SDC to expand globally. Starting with SDC India and this year adding SDC EMEA, we are reaching developers around the world now with educational content. Each year we get better and better talk proposals and the hard part is not being able to present more content. I always encourage developers to submit talks on their latest discoveries and architectures. Other developers want to hear about it.
SOS: There was a lot of good feedback on the content from SDC North America in 2018. What was your overall impression of this 21st SDC event? Read More
SNIA 7th annual Persistent Memory Summit – January 24, 2019 at the Hyatt Santa Clara CA – delivers a far-reaching agenda exploring exciting new topics with experienced speakers:
Paul Grun of OpenFabrics Alliance and Cray on the Characteristics of Persistent Memory
Stephen Bates of Eideticom, Neal Christiansen of Microsoft, and Eric Kaczmarek of Intel on Enabling Persistent Memory through OS and Interpreted Languages
Adam Roberts of Western Digital on the Mission Critical Fundamental Architecture for Numerous In-memory Databases
Idan Burstein of Mellanox Technologies on Making Remote Memory Persistent
Eden Kim of Calypso Systems on Persistent Memory Performance Benchmarking and Comparison
With a topic like Emerging Memory Poised to Explode, no wonder this SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative webcast generated so much interest! Our audience had some great questions, and, as promised, our experts Tom Coughlin and Jim Handy provide the answers in this blog. Read on, and join SNIA at the Persistent Memory Summit January 24, 2019 in Santa Clara CA. Details and complimentary registration are at www.snia.org/pm-summit.
Q. Can you mention one or two key applications leading the effort to leverage Persistent Memory?Read More
Don’t miss your chance to attend the SNIA’s 7th Annual Persistent Memory Summit, co-located with the SNIA Annual Members’ Meeting on January 24, 2019 at a new location – Hyatt Regency Santa Clara CA. This innovative one-day event brings together industry leaders, solution providers, and users of technology to understand the ecosystem driving system memory and storage into a single, unified “persistent memory” entity. Agenda topics include Enabling Persistent Memory through the Operating System and Interpreted Languages; PM Solutions, Interfaces, and Media; and the NVM Programming Model in the Real World. The final agenda will be live later this month so stay tuned!
Many thanks to SNIA member Intel Corporation and the SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative for underwriting the Summit. New to the Summit in 2019 is an evening networking reception and a new, expanded demonstration area. Gold and Demonstration sponsor opportunities are now available. Complimentary registration is now open – visit www.snia.org/pm-summit to sign up, check out videos of 2018 sessions, and learn how to showcase your PM solutions at the event.
You can catch up on videos of Summit talks, along with the slides presented, 
Leave it to Rob Peglar, SNIA Board Member and the MC of SNIA’s 7th annual 
SNIA Technical Council Co-Chair, on 2018 highlights and 2019 plans to educate and support this important technical community.
