Category: Computational Storage

Reaching a Computational Storage Milestone

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Version 1.0 of the SNIA Computational Storage Architecture and Programming Model has just been released to the public at www.snia.org/csarch. The Model has received industry accolades, winning the Flash Memory Summit 2022 Best of Show Award for Most Innovative Memory Technology at their recent conference. Congratulations to all the companies and individuals who contributed large amounts of expertise and time to the creation of this Model.  SNIAOnStorage sat down with SNIA Computational Storage Technical Work Group (CS TWG) co-chairs Jason Molgaard and Scott Shadley; SNIA Computational Storage Architecture and Programming Model editor Bill Martin; and SNIA Computational Storage Special Interest Group chair David McIntyre to get their perspectives on this milestone release and next steps for SNIA. SNIAOnStorage (SOS): What is the significance of a 1.0 release for this computational storage SNIA specification? Read More

Join Us as We Return Live to FMS!

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SNIA is pleased to be part of the Flash Memory Summit 2022 agenda August 1-4, 2022 at the Santa Clara CA Convention Center, with our volunteer leadership demonstrating solutions, chairing and speaking in sessions, and networking with FMS attendees at a variety of venues during the conference. The ever-popular SNIA Reception at FMS features the SNIA groups Storage Management Initiative, Compute Memory and Storage Initiative, and Green Storage Initiative, along with SNIA alliance partners CXL Consortium, NVM Express, and OpenFabrics Alliance.  Stop by B-203/204 at the Convention Center from 5:30 – 7:00 pm Monday August 1 for refreshments and networking with colleagues to kick off the week! Read More

Summit Success – and A Preview of What’s To Come

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Last month’s SNIA Persistent Memory and Computational Storage Summit (PM+CS Summit) put on a great show with 35 technology presentations from 41 speakers. Every presentation is now available online with a video and PDF found at www.snia.org/pm-summit.

Recently, SNIA On Storage sat down with David McIntyre, Summit Chair from Samsung, on his impressions of this 10th annual event.

SNIA On Storage (SOS): What were your thoughts on key topics coming into the Summit and did they change based on the presentations? Read More

Storage Edge Use Cases Q&A

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Our “Storage Life on the Edge” webcast series continued on March 22, 2022 where our expert panelists, Stephen Bates, Bill Martin, Mayank Saxena and Tong Zhang highlighted several real-world edge use cases, the implications for storage, and the benefits of computational storage standards. You can access the on-demand session and the presentation slides at the SNIA Educational Library. The panel answered several questions during the live event. We only had time to get to a handful. As promised, here are answers to all of them.

Q.  I have heard NVMe® is developing an open and vendor-neutral standard for computational storage devices. How important do you think standards like this one are for mass adoption of these types of devices on the edge and why?

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Our Storage Life on the Edge Webcast Series Continues….

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The second webcast in our Storage Life on the Edge series is coming up on March 22, 2022 at 10:00 am Pacific time.  This panel, moderated by Bill Martin, SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Initiative Chair, takes a deeper dive to focus on edge use cases in the computational storage space. Our panelists Mayank Saxena from Sansung, Stephen Bates from Eideticom, and Tong Zhang from ScaleFlux will discuss edge to cloud use cases where storage and compute resources need to be deployed in practical topologies that deliver the very best in application performance. They’ll examine high performance edge data needs, database acceleration solutions, meeting retail chain challenges, and more. You won’t want to miss their panel discussion and the chance to ask your questions live. Register here to attend. We’ll look forward to seeing you! The post Our Storage Life on the Edge Webcast Series Continues…. first appeared on SNIA Compute, Memory and Storage Blog.

Computational Storage: Driving Success, Driving Standards Q and A

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Our recent SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Initiative (CMSI) webcast, Computational Storage – Driving Success, Driving Standards, explained the key elements of the SNIA Computational Storage Architecture and Programming Model and the SNIA Computational Storage API . If you missed the live event, you can watch on-demand and view the presentation slides. Ouraudience asked a number of questions, and Bill Martin, Editor of the Model, and Jason Molgaard, Co-Chair of the SNIA Computational Storage Technical Work Group, teamed up to answer them. What’s being done in SNIA to implement data protection (e.g. RAID) and CSDs? Can data be written/striped to CSDs in such a way that it can be computed on within the drive? Read More

Object Storage: Got Questions?

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Over 900 people (and counting) have watched ourSNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) webcast, “Object Storage: Trends, Use Cases” where our expert panelist had a lively discussion on object storage characteristics, use cases and performance acceleration. If you have not seen this session yet, we encourage you to check it out on-demand. The conversation included several interesting questions related to object storage. As promised, here are answers to them: Q: Today object storage allows many new capabilities but also new challenges, such as the need for geographic and local load balancers in a distributed scale out infrastructure that at the same time do not become the bottleneck of the object services at an unsustainable cost. Are there any solutions available today that have these features built in? A: Some object storage solutions have features such as load balancing and geographic distribution built into the software, though often the storage administrator must manually configure parts of these features at the network and/or server level. Most object storage cloud (StaaS) implementations include a distributed, scale-out infrastructure (including load balancing) in their implementation. Read More

Why Cryptocurrency and Computational Storage?

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Our new SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage webcast focuses on a hot topic – storage-based cryptocurrency. Blockchains, cryptocurrency, and the internet of markets are working to transform finance, wealth, safety, digital security, and trust. Storage-based cryptocurrencies had a breakout year in 2021. Proof of Space and Time is a new blockchain consensus that uses storage capacity to secure the blockchain. Decentralized file storage will enable alternatives to hyperscale data centers for hosting files and objects. Understanding the TCO of a storage system and optimizing the utilization of the storage hardware is critical in scaling these systems. Join our speakers, Jonmichael Hands of Chia Network and Eli Tiomkin of NGD Systems, for this discussion on how a new approach of auto-plotting SSDs combined with computational storage can lower the total TCO. Registration is free for this webcast on Tuesday, February 15 at 10:00 am Pacific time. Click on the link to register and see you there! https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/663/526154 The post Why Cryptocurrency and Computational Storage? first appeared on SNIA Compute, Memory and Storage Blog.

See You – Virtually – at SDC 2021

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SNIA Storage Developer Conference goes virtual September 28-29 2021, and compute, memory, and storage are important topics.  SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Initiative is a sponsor of SDC 2021 – so visit our booth for the latest information and a chance to chat with our experts.  With over 120 sessions available to watch live during the event and later on-demand, live Birds of a Feather chats, and a Persistent Memory Bootcamp and Hackathon accessing new systems in the cloud, we want to make sure you don’t miss anything!  Register here to see sessions live – or on demand to your schedule. Agenda highlights include: Read More

What’s New in Computational Storage? A Conversation with SNIA Leadership

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The latest revisions of the SNIA Computational Storage Architecture and Programming Model Version 0.8 Revision 0 and the Computational Storage API v0.5 rev 0 are now live on the SNIA website. Interested to know what has been added to the specifications, SNIAOnStorage met “virtually” with Jason Molgaard, Co-Chair of the SNIA Computational Storage Technical Work Group, and Bill Martin, Co-Chair of the SNIA Technical Council and editor of the specifications, to get the details. Both SNIA volunteer leaders stressed that they welcome ideas about the specifications and invite industry colleagues to join them in continuing to define computational storage standards.  The two documents are working documents – continually being refined and enhanced. If you are not a SNIA member, you can submit public comments via the SNIA Feedback Portal. To learn if your company is a SNIA member, check the SNIA membership list. If you are a SNIA member,  go here to join the Computational Storage Technical Work Group member work area. The Computational Storage Technical Work Group chairs also welcome your emails.  Reach out to them at computationaltwg-chair@snia.org. Read More