Author: SNIA CMSI

Just What is an IOTTA?  Inquiring Minds Learn Now!

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SNIA’s twelve Technical Work Groups collaborate to develop and promote vendor-neutral architectures, standards, and education for management, movement, and security for technologies related to handling and optimizing data. One of the more unique work groups is the  SNIA Input/Output Traces, Tools, and Analysis Technical Work Group (IOTTA TWG). SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Initiative recently sat down with IOTTA TWG Chairs Geoff Kuenning of Harvey Mudd College and Tom West of hyperI/O LLC to learn about some exciting new developments in their work activities and how SNIA members and colleagues can get involved. Q: What does the IOTTA TWG do? A: The IOTTA TWG is for those interested in the use of empirical data/metrics to better understand the actual operation and performance characteristics of storage I/O, especially as they pertain to application workloads. Read More

2024 Year of the Summit Kicks Off – Meet us at MemCon

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2023 was a great year for SNIA CMSI to meet with IT professionals and end users in “Summits” to discuss technologies, innovations, challenges, and solutions.  Our outreach at six industry events reached over 16,000 and we thank all who engaged with our CMSI members. We are excited to continue a second “Year of the Summit” with a variety of opportunities to network and converse with you.  Our first networking event will take place March 26-27, 2024 at MemCon in Mountain View, CA. MemCon 2024 focuses on systems design for the data centric era, working with data-intensive workloads, integrating emerging technologies, and overcoming data movement and management challenges.  It’s the perfect event to discuss the integration of SNIA’s focus on developing global standards and delivering education on all technologies related to data.  SNIA and MemCon have prepared a video highlighting several of the key topics to be discussed. Read More

Emerging Memories Branch Out – a Q&A

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Our recent SNIA Persistent Memory SIG webinar explored in depth the latest developments and futures of emerging memories – now found in multiple applications both as stand-alone chips and embedded into systems on chips. We got some great questions from our live audience, and our experts Arthur Sainio, Tom Coughlin, and Jim Handy have taken the time to answer them in depth in this blog. And if you missed the original live talk, watch the video and download the PDF here. Q:  Do you expect Persistent Memory to eventually gain the speeds that exist today with DRAM? A:  It appears that that has already happened with the hafnium ferroelectrics that SK Hynix and Micron have shown.Ferroelectric memory is a very fast technology and with very fast write cycles there should be every reason for it to go that way. With the hooks that are in CXL™,  though, that shouldn’t be that much of a Read More

Open Standards Featured at FMS 2023

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SNIA welcomes colleagues to join them at the upcoming Flash Memory Summit, August 8-10, 2023 in Santa Clara CA. SNIA is pleased to join standards organizations CXL Consortium™ (CXL™), PCI-SIG®, and Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express™ (UCIe™) in an Open Standards Pavilion, Booth #725, in the Exhibit Hall.  CMSI will feature SNIA member companies in a computational storage cross industry demo by Intel, MINIO, and Solidigm and a Data Filtering demo by ScaleFlux; a software memory tiering demo by VMware; a persistent memory workshop and hackathon; and the latest on SSD form factors E1 and E3 work by SNIA SFF TA Technical work group. SMI will showcase SNIA Swordfish® management of NVMe SSDs on Linux with demos by Intel Samsung and Solidigm. CXL will discuss their advances in coherent connectivity.  PCI-SIG will feature their PCIe 5.0 architecture (32GT/s) and PCIe 6.0 (65GT/s) architectures and industry adoption and the upcoming PCIe 7.0 specification development (128GT/s).  UCIe will discuss their new open industry standard establishing a universal interconnect at the package-level. SNIA STA Forum will also be in Booth #849 – learn more about the SCSI Trade Association joining SNIA. These demonstrations and discussions will augment FMS program sessions in the SNIA-sponsored System Architecture Track on memory, computational storage, CXL, and UCIe standards.  A SNIA mainstage session on Wednesday August 9 at 2:10 pm will discuss Trends in Storage and Data: New Directions for Industry Standards. SNIA colleagues and friends can receive a $100 discount off the 1-, 2-, or 3-day full conference registration by using code SNIA23. Visit snia.org/fms to learn more about the exciting activities at FMS 2023 and join us there! The post Open Standards Featured at FMS 2023 first appeared on SNIA Compute, Memory and Storage Blog.

Your Questions Answered on Persistent Memory, CXL, and Memory Tiering

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With the persistent memory ecosystem continuing to evolve with new interconnects like CXL™ and applications like memory tiering, our recent Persistent Memory, CXL, and Memory Tiering-Past, Present, and Future webinar was a big success.  If you missed it, watch it on demand HERE! Many questions were answered live during the webinar, but we did not get to all of them.  Our moderator Jim Handy from Objective Analysis, and experts Andy Rudoff and Bhushan Chithur from Intel, David McIntyre from Samsung, and Sudhir Balasubramanian and Arvind Jagannath from VMware have taken the time to answer them in this blog. Happy reading! Q: What features or support is required from a CXL capable endpoint to e.g. an accelerator to support the memory pooling? Any references? Read More

It’s A Wrap – But Networking and Education Continue From Our C+M+S Summit!

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Our 2023 SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit was a success! The event featured 50 speakers in 40 sessions over two days. Over 25 SNIA member companies and alliance partners participated in creating content on computational storage, CXL™ memory, storage, security, and UCIe™. All presentations and videos are free to view at www.snia.org/cms-summit. “For 2023, the Summit scope expanded to examine how the latest advances within and across compute, memory and storage technologies should be optimized and configured to meet the requirements of end customer applications and the developers that create them,” said David McIntyre, Co-Chair of the Summit.  “We invited our SNIA Alliance Partners Compute Express Link™ and Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express™ to contribute to a holistic view of application requirements and the infrastructure resources that are required to support them,” McIntyre continued.  “Their panel on the CXL device ecosystem and usage models and presentation on UCIe innovations at the package level along with three other sessions on CXL added great value to the event.” Read More

50 Speakers Featured at the 2023 SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit

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SNIA’s Compute+Memory+Storage Summit is where architectures, solutions, and community come together. Our 2023 Summit – taking place virtually on April 11-12, 2023 – is the best example to date, featuring a stellar lineup of 50 speakers in 40 sessions covering topics including computational storage real-world applications, the future of memory, critical storage security issues, and the latest on SSD form factors, CXL™, and UCIe™. “We’re excited to welcome executives, architects, developers, implementers, and users to our 11th annual Summit,” said David McIntyre, C+M+S Summit Co-Chair, and member of the SNIA Board of Directors.  “We’ve gathered the technology leaders to bring us the latest developments in compute, memory, storage, and security in our free online event.  We hope you will watch live to ask questions of our experts as they present, and check out those sessions you miss on-demand.” Read More

“Year of the Summit” Kicks Off with Live and Virtual Events

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For 11 years, SNIA Compute, Memory and Storage Initiative (CMSI) has presented a Summit featuring industry leaders speaking on the key topics of the day.  In the early years, it was persistent memory-focused, educating audiences on the benefits and uses of persistent memory.  In 2020 it expanded to a Persistent Memory+Computational Storage Summit, examining that new technology, its architecture, and use cases. Now in 2023, the Summit is expanding again to focus on compute, memory, and storage. Read More

Is EDSFF Taking Center Stage? We Answer Your Questions!

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Enterprise and Data Center Form Factor (EDSFF) technologies have come a long way since our 2020 SNIA CMSI webinar on the topic. While that webinar still provides an outstanding framework for understanding – and SNIA’s popular SSD Form Factors page gives the latest on the E1 and E3 specifications – SNIA Solid State Drive Special Interest Group co-chairs Cameron Brett and Jonmichael Hands joined to provide the latest updates at our live webcast: EDSFF Taking Center Stage in the Data Center.  We had some great questions from our live audience, so our experts have taken the time to answer them in this this blog. Q: What does the EDSFF roadmap look like? When will we see PCIe® Gen5 NVMe™, 1.2, 2.0 CXL ™ cx devices? Read More

Is the Data Really Gone? A Q&A

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In our recent webcast Is the Data Really Gone? A Primer on the Sanitization of Storage Devices, our presenters Jonmichael Hands (Chia Network), Jim Hatfield (Seagate), and John Geldman (KIOXIA) took an in-depth look at exactly what sanitization is, what the standards are, and where sanitization is being practiced today.  If you missed it, you can watch on-demand their recommendations for the verification of sanitization to ensure that devices are meeting stringent requirements – and access the presentation slides at the SNIA Educational Library.  Here, in our Q&A blog, our experts answer more of your questions on data sanitization. Read More