Recently, the SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Initiative (CMSI) hosted a wide-ranging discussion on the “compute everywhere” continuum. The panel featured Chipalo Street from Microsoft, Steve Adams from Intel, and Eli Tiomkin from NGD Systems representing both the start-up environment and the SNIA Computational Storage Special Interest Group. We appreciate the many questions asked during the webcast and are pleased to answer them in this Q&A blog.
Category: Computational Storage
Composable or Computational – Your Questions Answered!
Our recent webcast on Composable Infrastructure and Computational Storage raised some interesting questions. No need to compose your own answers – my co-presenter Philip Kufeldt and I answer them here! You can find the entire webcast video along with the slide PDF in the SNIA Educational Library. We also invite you and your colleagues to take 10 and watch three short videos on Computational Storage topics.
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See You (Online) at SDC!
We’re going virtual in 2020, and Compute, Memory, and Storage are important topics at the upcoming SNIA Storage Developer Conference. SNIA CMSI is a sponsor of SDC 2020 – so visit our booth for the latest information and a chance to chat with our experts. With over 120 sessions available to watch live during the event and later on-demand, live Birds of a Feather chats, and a Persistent Memory Bootcamp accessing new PM systems in the cloud, we want to make sure you don’t miss anything! Register here to see sessions live – or on demand to your schedule. Agenda highlights include:
Computational Storage Talks
Deploying Computational Storage at the Edge – discussing the deployment of small form factor, asic-based, solutions, including a use case.
Next Generation Datacenters require composable architecture enablers and deterministic programmable intelligence – explaining why determinism, parallel programming and ease of programming are important.
Computational Storage Birds of a Feather LIVE Session – ask your questions of our experts and see live demos of computational storage production systems. Tuesday September 22, 2020 – 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm PDT (UTC-7)
Persistent Memory Presentations
Caching on PMEM: an Iterative Approach – discussing Twitter’s approach to exploring in-memory caching.
Challenges and Opportunities as Persistence Moves Up the Memory/Storage Hierarchy – show how and why memory at all levels will become persistent.
Persistent Memory on eADR System – describes how the SNIA Persistent Memory Programming Model will include the possibility of platforms where the CPU caches are considered permanent and need no flushing.
Persistent Memory Birds of a Feather LIVE Session – ask your questions to our experts on your bootcamp progress, how to program PM, or what PM is shipping today . Tuesday, September 22, 2020 – 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm PDT (UTC-7)
Solid State Storage Sessions
Enabling Ethernet Drives – provides a glimpse into a new SNIA standard that enables SSDs to have an Ethernet interface, and discussed the latest management standards for NVMe-oF drives.
An SSD for Automotive Applications – details efforts under way in JEDEC to define a new Automotive SSD standard.
Take 10 – Watch a Computational Storage Trilogy
We’re all busy these days, and the thought of scheduling even more content to watch can be overwhelming. Great technical content – especially from the SNIA Educational Library – delivers what you need to know, but often it needs to be consumed in long chunks. Perhaps it’s time to shorten the content so you have more freedom to watch.
With the tremendous interest in computational storage, SNIA is on the forefront of standards development – and education. The SNIA Computational Storage Special Interest Group (CS SIG) has just produced a video trilogy – informative, packed with detail, and consumable in under 10 minutes!
What Is Computational Storage?, presented by Eli Tiomkin, SNIA CS SIG Chair, emphasizes the need for common language and definition of computational storage terms, and discusses four distinct examples of computational storage deployments. It serves as a great introduction to the other videos.
Advantages of Reducing Data Movement frames computational storage advantages into two categories: saving time and saving money. JB Baker, SNIA CS SIG member, dives into a data filtering computational storage service example and an analytics benchmark, explaining how tasks complete more quickly using less power and fewer CPU cycles.
Eli Tiomkin returns to complete the trilogy with Computational Storage: Edge Compute Deployment. He discusses how an edge computing future might look, and how computational storage operates in a cloud, edge node, and edge device environment.
Each video in the Educational Library also has a downloadable PDF of the slides that also link to additional resources that you can view at your leisure. The SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Initiative will be producing more of these short videos in the coming months on computational storage, persistent memory, and other topics.
Check out each video and download the PDF of the slides! Happy watching!
Your Questions Answered on CMSI and More
The “new” SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Initiative (CMSI) was formed at the beginning of 2020 out of the SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative. The 45 companies who comprise the CMSI recognized the opportunity to combine storage, memory, and compute in new, novel, and useful ways; and to bring together technology, alliances, education, and outreach to better understand new opportunities and applications.
To better explain this decision, and to talk about the various aspects of the Initiative, CMSI co-chair Alex McDonald invited CMSI members Eli Tiomkin, Jonmichael Hands, and Jim Fister to join him in a live SNIA webcast.
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