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It’s a Wrap for SNIA and the Solid State Storage Initiative at Flash Memory Summit 2019

Marty Foltyn

A Best of Show award, over 12 hours of content, three days of demos, and a new program drawing attention to persistent memory programming completed – Flash Memory Summit 2019 is officially a success!

SNIA volunteers were again recognized for their hard work developing standards for datacenters and storage professionals with a “Most Innovative Flash Memory Technology” FMS Best of Show award. This year, it was SNIA’s Object Drive Technical Work Group who received kudos for the SNIA Technical Position Key Value Storage API Specification.  Jay Kramer, head of the FMS awards program, presented the award to Bill Martin, Chair of the Object Drive TWG, commenting “Key value store technology can enable NVM storage devices to map and store data more efficiently and with enhanced performance, which is of paramount significance to facilitate computational storage.  Flash Memory Summit is proud to recognize the SNIA Object Drive Technical Work Group (TWG) for creating the SNIA Technical Position Key Value Storage API Specification Version 1.0 defining an application programming interface (API) for key value storage devices and making this available to the public for download.

SNIA Sessions at FMS Now Available for Viewing and Download

SNIA Executive Director Michael Oros again took the mainstage to describe “Standards that Can Change Your Job and Your Life” encapsulating SNIA work in three core areas:  persistent memory, computational storage, and storage management.

Also at Flash Memory Summit, SNIA work and volunteers were on display in eight sessions on persistent memory, highlighting advances in persistent memory, PM software and applications, remote persistent memory, and current research in PM, sponsored by SNIA, JEDEC, and the OpenFabrics Alliance.   A new 2019 SNIA-sponsored track on computational storage featured four sessions on controllers and technology, deploying solutions, implementation methods, and applications.

SNIA’s SFF Technology Affiliate highlighted their work on the Enterprise and Datacenter 1U Short SSD Form Factor (E1.S) specification SFF-TA 1006,  while the Object Drive TWG expanded on their work in standardization for a key value storage interface underway at SNIA and NVM Express.   SNIA also presented a preconference seminar tutorial on persistent memory and NVDIMM, and a session on Storage Management with Swordfish APIs for Open Channel SSDs.

A new session on programming to persistent memory featured a tutorial (video available soon) and a 2 ½ day Persistent Memory Programming Hackathon where attendees programmed to persistent memory systems and discussed their applications.  Next up for the Hackathon series – a 2-day event at SNIA Storage Developer Conference.

Find PDFs of these sessions by clicking on Flash Memory Summit 2019 under Associated Event in the SNIA Educational Library.

We continued our discussions on the exhibit floor featuring JEDEC-compliant NVDIMM-Ns from SNIA Persistent Memory and NVDIMM SIG members AgigA Tech, Micron, SMART Modular Technologies, and Viking in a Supermicro box running an open source performance demonstration.  If you missed it, the SIG will showcase a similar demonstration at the upcoming SNIA Storage Developer Conference September 23-26, 2019, and at the 2020 SNIA Persistent Memory Summit January 23, 2020, both at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara.  Click on the conference names to register for both events.

SNIA at Flash Memory Summit 2019 – Your Guide Here!

Marty Foltyn

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

Register for the PIRL Conference Today

Marty Foltyn

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.

Register for the PIRL Conference Today

Marty Foltyn
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

Your Questions Answered – Applications Take Advantage of Persistent Memory Webcast

Marty Foltyn
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

Hacking with the U

Marty Foltyn

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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Persistently Fun Once Again – SNIA’s 7th Persistent Memory Summit is a Wrap!

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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

Extending the Reach of Storage Developer Education in 2019

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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

Exceptional Agenda – and a Hackathon – Highlight the 2019 SNIA Persistent Memory Summit

Marty Foltyn
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
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Emerging Memory Questions Answered

Marty Foltyn
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