Category: NVM Programming
Judging Has Begun – Submit Your Entry for the NVDIMM Programming Challenge!
We’re 11 months in to the Persistent Memory Hackathon program, and over 150 software developers have taken the tutorial and tried their hand at programming to persistent memory systems. AgigA Tech, Intel, SMART Modular, and Supermicro, members of the SNIA Persistent Memory and NVDIMM SIG, have now placed persistent memory systems with NVDIMM-Ns into the SNIA Technology Center as the backbone of the first SNIA NVDIMM Programming Challenge.
Interested in participating? Send an email to PMhackathon@snia.org to get your credentials. And do so quickly, as the first round of review for the SNIA NVDIMM Programming Challenge is now open. Any entrants who have progressed to a point where they would like a review are welcome to contact SNIA at PMhackathon@snia.org to request a time slot. SNIA will be opening review times in December and January as well. Submissions that meet a significant amount of the judging criteria described below, as determined by the panel, will be eligible for a demonstration slot to show the 400+ attendees at the January 23, 2020 Persistent Memory Summit in Santa Clara CA.
Your program or results should be able to be visually demonstrated using remote access to a PM-enabled server. Submissions will be judged by a panel of SNIA experts. Reviews will be scheduled at the convenience of the submitter and judges, and done via conference call.
NVDIMM Programming Challenge Judging Criteria include:
Use of multiple aspects of NVDIMM/PM capabilities, for example:
- Use of larger DRAM/NVDIMM memory sizes
- Use of the DRAM speed of NVDIMM PMEM for performance
- Speed-up of application shut down or restart using PM where appropriate
- Recovery from crash/failure
- Storage of data across application or system restarts
Demonstrates other innovative aspects for a program or tool, for example:
- Uses persistence to enable new features
- Appeals across multiple aspects of a system, beyond persistence
Advances the cause of PM in some obvious way:
- Encourages the update of systems to broadly support PM
- Makes PM an incremental need in IT deployments
Program or results apply to all types of NVDIMM/PM systems, though exact results may vary across memory types.
Questions? Contact Jim Fister, SNIA Hackathon Program Director, at pmhackathon@snia.org, and happy coding!
Learn the Latest on Persistence at the 2020 Persistent Memory Summit
Register for the PIRL Conference Today
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
Hacking with the U
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.
Dive Into SDC – A Chat with SNIA Technical Council Co-Chair Mark Carlson on Persistent Memory
The SNIA Storage Developer Conference (SDC) is coming up September 24-27, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara CA. The agenda is now live!
SNIA on Storage is ready to dive into major themes of the 2018 conference, starting with Persistent Memory. The SNIA Technical Council takes a leadership role to develop the content for each SDC, so SNIA on Storage spoke with Mark Carlson, SNIA Technical Council Co-Chair and Principal Engineer, Industry Standards, Toshiba Memory America, to understand why SDC is bringing Persistent Memory to conference attendees.
SNIA on Storage (SOS) – Why has the Technical Council chosen Persistent Memory as a major topic for 2018?
Mark Carlson (MC) – For a number of years, SNIA has been a key contributor to industry activities driving system memory and storage into a single Persistent Memory entity. For Developers just being introduced to this new technology, SNIA has a multitude of educational resources that can be used to come up to speed on Persistent Memory and make the most of their time at SDC 2018.
SOS – Where should attendees begin? Read More
Exceptional Agenda on Tap for 2018 Persistent Memory Summit
Does Your World Include Storage? Don’t Miss SDC!
Whether storage is already a main focus of your career or may be advancing toward you, you’ll definitely want to attend the flagship event for storage developers – and those involved in storage operations, decision making, and usage – SNIA’s 19th annual Storage Developer Conference (SDC), September 11-14, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, California. Read More