Posted by Marty Foltyn
In the two weeks leading up to the 2015 SNIA Storage Developer Conference, which begins on September 21, SNIA on Storage is highlighting exciting interest areas in the SDC agenda. Our previous blog entries have covered File Systems, Cloud, Management, and New Thinking, and this week we continue with Disruptive Technologies. If you have not registered, you need to! Visit http://www.storagedeveloper.org/ to see the four day overview and sign up.
SDC’s “Disruptive Technologies” sessions highlight those new areas which are revolutionizing storage and the work of developers: Persistent Memory, Object Drives, and Shingled Magnetic Recording (SLR). Leading experts will do a deep dive with sixteen sessions spread throughout the conference agenda. Preview sessions here, and click on the title to find more details.
If you are just dipping your toes into disruptive technologies, you will want to check out the SDC Pre-Conference Primer on Sunday September 20. These sessions are included with full conference registration.
At the Primer, Thomas Coughlin, SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative Governing Board and President, Coughlin Associates and Edward Grochowski, Storage Consultant, will present Advances in Non-Volatile Storage Technologies, where they will address the status of NVM device technologies and review requirements in process, equipment, and innovations.
Jim Handy, SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative Member and General Director, Objective Analysis will discuss The Long-Term Future of Solid State Storage, examining research of new solid state memory and storage types and new means of integrating them into highly-optimized computing architectures. This will lead to a discussion of the way that these will impact the market for computing equipment.
David Cohen, System Architect, and Brian Hausauer, Hardware Architect, at Intel will present Nonvolatile Memory (NVM), Four Trends in the Modern Data Center, and the Implications for the Design of Next Generation Distributed Storage Platforms. They will discuss increasing performance of network bandwidth; storage media approaching the performance of DRAM; OSVs optimizing the code path of their storage stacks; and single processor/core performance and their implications on the design of distributed storage platforms.
Dr. Thomas Willhalm and Karthik Kumar, Senior Application Engineers at Intel, will present Developing Software for Persistent Memory. They will discuss how to identify which data structures that are suited for this new memory tier, and which data structures are not. They will provide developers a systematic methodology to identify how their applications can be architected to take advantage of persistence in the memory tier
And you won’t want to miss the Wednesday evening September 23 Birds-Of-a-Feather (BOF) on Enabling Persistent Memory Applications with NVDIMMs! Come to this OPEN TO ALL IN THE INDUSTRY Birds of a Feather session for an interactive discussion on what customers, storage developers, and the industry would like to see to improve and enhance NVDIMM integration and optimization.
At the SDC Conference, sessions on “Disruptive Technologies – Persistent Memory” kick off with Doug Voigt, SNIA NVM Programming Technical Work Group Co-Chair and Distinguished Technologist, HP who will discuss Preparing Applications for Persistent Memory, using the concepts of the SNIA NVM Programming Model to explore the emerging landscape of persistent memory related software from an application evolution point of view.
Paul von Behren, SNIA NVM Programming Technical Work Group Co-Chair and Software Architect, Intel will present Managing the Next Generation Memory Subsystem, providing an overview of emerging memory device types, covering management concepts and features, and conclude with an overview of standards that drive interoperability and encourage the development of memory subsystem management tools.
SNIA NVDIMM Special Interest Group Co-Chairs Jeff Chang, VP Marketing and Business Development, AgigA Tech and Arthur Sainio, Senior Director Marketing, SMART Modular will present The NVDIMM Cookbook: A Soup-to-Nuts Primer on Using NVDIMMs to Improve Your Storage Performance. In this SNIA Tutorial, they will walk you through a soup-to-nuts description of integrating NVDIMMs into your system, from hardware to BIOS to application software, highlighting some of the “knobs” to turn to optimize use in your application as well as some of the “gotchas” encountered along the way.
Pete Kirkpatrick, Principal Engineer, Pure Storage will discuss Building NVRAM Subsystems in All-Flash Storage Arrays, including the hardware and software development of an NVDIMM using NVMe over PCIe-based NVRAM solutions and comparison of the performance of the NVMe-based solution to an SLC NAND Flash-based solution.
Tom Talpey, Architect, Microsoft, will discuss Remote Access to Ultra-low-latency Storage, exploring the issues and outlining a path-finding effort to make small, natural extensions to RDMA and upper layer storage protocols to reduce latencies to acceptable, minimal levels, while preserving the many advantages of the storage protocols they extend.
Sarah Jelinek, Senior SW Engineer, Intel, will present Solving the Challenges of Persistent Memory Programming, reviewing key attributes of persistent memory as well as outlining architectural and design considerations for making an application persistent memory aware.
Chet Douglas, Principal SW Architect, Intel will discuss RDMA with PM: Software Mechanisms for Enabling Persistent Memory Replication, reviewing key HW components involved in RDMA and introduce several SW mechanisms that can be utilized with RDMA with PM.
In the Disruptive Technology area of Object Drives, Mark Carlson, Principal Engineer, Industry Standards, Toshiba will present a SNIA Tutorial on Object Drives: A New Architectural Partitioning, discussing the current state and future prospects for object drives, including use cases, requirements, and best practices.
Abhijeet Gole, Senior Director of Engineering, Toshiba will present Beyond LBA: New Directions in the Storage Interface, exploring the paradigm shift introduced by these new interfaces and modes of operation of storage devices.
In the Disruptive Technology area of Shingled Magnetic Recording, Jorge Campello, Director of Systems – Architecture and Solutions, HGST will discuss SMR – The Next Generation of Storage Technology articulating the difference in SMR drive architectures and performance characteristics, and illustrating how the open source community has the distinct advantage of integrating a host-managed platform that leverages SMR HDDs
Albert Chen Engineering Program Director and Jim Malina, Technologist, WDC, will discuss Host Managed SMR, going over the various SW/FW paradigms that attempt to abstract away SMR behavior (e.g. user space library, device mapper, SMR aware file system, enlightened application). Along the way, they will also explore what deficiencies (e.g. ATA sense data reporting) are holding back SMR adoption in the data center.
Join your peers – register now at www.storagedeveloper.org. And stay tuned for tomorrow’s blog on Security topics at SDC!