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. Read More
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.
Video streaming is an easy-to-understand workload from the I/O perspective, right? It’s pretty obvious that it’s a workload heavy on long, streaming reads. The application can be modeled with a consistent read flow, and the software tests should be easy. However, an analysis of the real-world workload shows something very different. At the disk level, the reads turn out to be a rapid flow of 4k and 8k block reads from a solid-state-disk. Further, other processes on the system also add in a small amount of 4k and 8k writes in the midst of the reads. All of this impacts the application –and an SSD — which was likely heavily tested on the basis of long, streaming reads.
Understanding the real-world characteristics of a workload can be a significant advantage in the development of new hardware, new systems, and new applications. The SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) and SSSI member company Calypso Systems are providing an opportunity to build a repository of workloads for the industry to use for real-world testing, as outlined in a new SSSI white paper How to Be a Part of the Real-World Workload Revolution. Read More
Video streaming is an easy-to-understand workload from the I/O perspective, right? It’s pretty obvious that it’s a workload heavy on long, streaming reads. The application can be modeled with a consistent read flow, and the software tests should be easy. However, an analysis of the real-world workload shows something very different. At the disk level, the reads turn out to be a rapid flow of 4k and 8k block reads from a solid-state-disk. Further, other processes on the system also add in a small amount of 4k and 8k writes in the midst of the reads. All of this impacts the application –and an SSD — which was likely heavily tested on the basis of long, streaming reads.
Understanding the real-world characteristics of a workload can be a significant advantage in the development of new hardware, new systems, and new applications. The SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) and SSSI member company Calypso Systems are providing an opportunity to build a repository of workloads for the industry to use for real-world testing, as outlined in a new SSSI white paper How to Be a Part of the Real-World Workload Revolution. This paper is also available in Chinese at the SSSI Knowledge Center White Papers page.
By going to the TestMyWorkload site, anyone can participate by providing a trace capture of an I/O workload that can be used by others to develop better products. The capture itself traces the block transfers, but does not capture actual data. Any workload replay would use representative blocks, so there are no concerns about data security or integrity from these captures.
The repository can be used by any participant to test hardware and software, and can help system vendors and users optimize configurations for the best performance based on real-world data. By participating in this effort, organizations and individuals can provide insight and gain from the knowledge of all the contributors.
Follow these three steps to be a part of the revolution today!
UCSD Computer Science and Engineering, the Non-Volatile Systems Laboratory, and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) are inviting submissions of proposals for presentation at the first annual Persistent Programming in Real Life (PIRL) conference. PIRL brings together software development leaders interested in learning about programming methodologies for persistent memories and sharing their experiences with others. This is a meeting for developer project leads on the front lines of persistent programming; not sales, marketing, or non-technical management. Read More
Thanks to all who attended or listened on-demand to our recent SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) webcast on Trends in Worldwide Media and Entertainment Storage. Motti Beck of Mellanox Technologies and Tom Coughlin, SSSI Education Chair and analyst with Coughlin Associates, got rave reviews for their analysis of this important market. Feedback comments included “Good overview with enough details for me to learn something”; “Really appreciate the insight into the ME businesses”; and “Just in time for the upcoming NAB Show!”. We appreciate your interest and enthusiasm!
Important to every SNIA webcast are the Questions – and we got quite a few on this one. Thanks in advance to Tom Coughlin, who provided the answers below. Send any more questions to us at asksssi@snia.org with the subject- M&E Webcast Questions. Happy reading, and we hope to see you at one of our upcoming webcasts or events.
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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 exciting to see the recent formation of the Solid State Drive Special Interest Group (SIG) here in the SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative. After all, everyone appreciates the ability to totally geek out about the latest drive technology and software for file systems. Right? Hey, where’s everyone going? We have vacation pictures with the dog we stored that we want to show…
Solid state storage has long found its place with those seeking greater performance in systems, especially where smaller or more random block/file transfers are prevalent. Single-system opportunity with NVMe drives is broad, and pretty much unquestioned by those building systems for the modern IT environments. Cloud, likewise, has found use of the technology where single-node performance makes a broader deployment relevant. 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.
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