Persistent Memory Summit 2020

Thursday, January 23, 2020

8:30 a.m.- 9:00 a.m.

Opening Remarks and State of the Union Persistent Memory
Jim Pappas, SNIA Board of Directors, Director of Technology Initiatives, Data Center Group, Intel Corporation

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Keynote: The Evolution of Cloud-scale Storage from iSCSI to RoCE to NVMexpress over Ethernet to NVMexpress over TCP/IP
Andy Bechtolsheim, Chief Development Officer and Co-Founder, Arista Networks

9:30 a.m. - 9:35 a.m.

Symposium Attendees Leave for Sessions

9:35 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

The Persistent Memory Programming Model 
Andy Rudoff, Member, SNIA NVM Programming Technical Work Group and Persistent Memory SW Architect, Intel Corporation

10:00 a.m. - 10:25 a.m.

PM in the Wild: VMware Experience and Future Expectations
Richard A. Brunner, Principal Engineer, CTO Server Platform Technologies, VMware

10:25 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

Break and Demonstrations

10:45 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.

Persistent Memory Use Cases in Modern Software Architectures
Soji Denloye, Software Development Engineer, Intel Corporation

11:10 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.

Memory at Storage Scale, Storage at Memory Speed
Charles Fan, Co-Founder and CEO, MemVerge

11:40 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.

Evolution of the Persistent Memory Development Kit
Piotr Balcer, PMDK Architect, Intel Corporation

12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Lunch and Demonstrations

1:15 p.m. - 1:40 p.m.

The Perfect Trifecta. NVMe, CXL and Persistent Memory!
Millind Mittal, Fellow, Xilinx and Scott Shadley, VP Marketing, NGD Systems

1:40 p.m. - 2:05 p.m.

Persistent Memory: Media, Attachment, and Usage
Dave Eggleston, Principal, Intuitive Cognition Consulting

2:05 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Providing Native Support for Byte-Addressable Persistent Memory in Golang
Pratap Subrahmanyam, Fellow, VMware

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Exadata with Persistent Memory: An Epic Journey
Jia Shi, Senior Director of Software Development for Exadata, Oracle Corporation

3:00 p.m. -3:20 p.m.

Break and Demonstrations

3:20 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.

Using Persistent Memory with Pelikan
Yao Yue (@thinkingfish), Software Architect, Twitter Inc.

3:50 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

Introduction to PM Hackathons
Jim Fister, Principal, The Decision Place; Director, SNIA Persistent Memory Software Enabling

4:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Using Real World Workloads and Artificial Intelligence to Optimize NVMe SSD and PM Performance
Eden Kim, CEO, Calypso Systems and Yafei Yang, CEO, DapuStor

4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Recap of Day and Closing Remarks
Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates and Jim Handy, General Director, Objective Analysis

until 6:30 p.m.

Reception, Networking, and Demonstrations