Our 2023 SNIA Compute+Memory+Storage Summit was a success! The event featured 50 speakers in 40 sessions over two days. Over 25 SNIA member companies and alliance partners participated in creating content on computational storage, CXL™ memory, storage, security, and UCIe™. All presentations and videos are free to view at www.snia.org/cms-summit.
“For 2023, the Summit scope expanded to examine how the latest advances within and across compute, memory and storage technologies should be optimized and configured to meet the requirements of end customer applications and the developers that create them,” said David McIntyre, Co-Chair of the Summit. “We invited our SNIA Alliance Partners Compute Express Link™ and Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express™ to contribute to a holistic view of application requirements and the infrastructure resources that are required to support them,” McIntyre continued. “Their panel on the CXL device ecosystem and usage models and presentation on UCIe innovations at the package level along with three other sessions on CXL added great value to the event.”
Thirteen computational storage presentations covered what is happening in NVMe™ and SNIA to support computational storage devices and define new interfaces with computational storage APIs that work across different hardware architectures. New applications for high performance data analytics, discussions of how to integrate computational storage into high performance computing designs, and new approaches to integrate compute, data and I/O acceleration closely with storage systems and data nodes were only a few of the topics covered.
“The rules by which the memory game is played are changing rapidly and we received great feedback on our nine presentations in this area,” said Willie Nelson, Co-Chair of the Summit. “SNIA colleagues Jim Handy and Tom Coughlin always bring surprising conclusions and opportunities for SNIA members to keep abreast of new memory technologies, and their outlook was complimented by updates on SNIA standards on memory-to memory data movement and on JEDEC memory standards; presentations on thinking memory, fabric attached memory, and optimizing memory systems using simulations; a panel examining where the industry is going with persistent memory, and much more.”
Additional highlights included an EDSFF panel covering the latest SNIA specifications that support these form factors, sharing an overview of platforms that are EDSFF-enabled, and discussing the future for new product and application introductions; a discussion on NVMe as a cloud interface; and a computational storage detecting ransomware session.
New to the 2023 Summit – and continuing to get great views – was a “mini track” on Security, led by Eric Hibbard, chair of the SNIA Storage Security Technical Work Group with contributions from IEEE Security Work Group members, including presentations on cybersecurity, fine grain encryption, storage sanitization, and zero trust architecture.
Co-Chairs McIntyre and Nelson encourage everyone to check out the video playlist and send your feedback to askcmsi@snia.org. The “Year of the Summit” continues with networking opportunities at the upcoming SmartNIC Summit (June), Flash Memory Summit (August), and SNIA Storage Developer Conference (September). Details on all these events and more are at the SNIA Event Calendar page. See you soon!