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:

1. Use of larger DRAM/NVDIMM memory sizes
2. Use of the DRAM speed of NVDIMM PMEM for performance
3. Speed-up of application shut down or restart using PM where appropriate
4. Recovery from crash/failure
5. Storage of data across application or system restarts

Demonstrates other innovative aspects for a program or tool, for example:

1. Uses persistence to enable new features
2. Appeals across multiple aspects of a system, beyond persistence

Advances the cause of PM in some obvious way:

1. Encourages the update of systems to broadly support PM
2. 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!