The public release of the Gen-Z Core Specification 1.0 enables silicon providers and IP developers to begin the development of products enabling Gen-Z technology solutions. This presentation outlines how Gen-Z will address the multiple server challenges brought on by the explosion of data (180ZB annually by 2025) and the need for a high-speed, low-latency, scalable, memory-centric fabric. Customers have more data and require more processing of that data, and to be competitive, companies must monetize that data.

A Gen-Z supported system definitely will have Memory Management Unit (MMU). Processor MMU will be attached with DDR protocol engine and Gen-Z protocol engine. Further Gen-Z protocol can retrieve data from DRAM, SCM, DRAM + SCM or DRAM + Flash devices. A media controller supporting different media types and mix illustrates a variety of Gen-Z memory modules that support any type and mix of media types including DRAM, SCM, and Flash. Media is abstracted through the Component Media Structure which describes the memory component’s attributes and capabilities, and controls its operation.

The emerging field of Genomics Medicine requires physicians, data scientists and researchers to analyze huge amounts of genomics data quickly. This poses challenges on the backend infrastructure including the storage. In this talk, we present the genomic workload characteristics, its requirement on the backend storage sub-systems and how an composable infrastructure approach based on scale out file system can enable IT architects to customize deployments for varying functional and performance needs.

The SNIA’s Scalable Storage Management Technical Work Group (SSM TWG) has developed the SNIA Swordfish specification for the management of storage systems and data services. Swordfish is an extension of the DMTF Redfish specification, and together these specifications provide a unified approach for the management of servers and storage in converged, hyper-converged, hyperscale and cloud infrastructure environments.

File systems must allocate space for files without knowing what will be added or removed in the future. Over the life of a file system, this may cause suboptimal file placement decisions which eventually lead to slower performance, or aging. Traditional file systems employ heuristics, such as collocating related files and data blocks, to avoid aging, and many file system implementors treat aging as a solved problem.

NVMe KV is a proposal for a new command structure to access data on an NVMe controller that is being developed within the NVMe technical working group. This proposed command set provides a key and a value to store data on the Non Volatile media and provides a key to retrieve data stored on the media. In addition to the work on the NVMe specification, the SNIA is also working on a KeyValue API. This presentation will describe the standardization efforts going on in both the NVMe working group and SNIA. Learning Objectives: 1. What is Key Value Storage 2.

Internet of Things is enabling traditional and newer operational workflows to be digitized for continuous measurement. The measured data is useful in predicting the operational failures/inefficiencies and take actions before they occur. The aggregation of measured data from millions of devices is overwhelming the public network bandwidth. Also, there are privacy and data sovereignty concerns as far as data on the move is concerned.

The SNIA’s Scalable Storage Management Technical Work Group (SSM TWG) is working to create and publish a new open industry standard specification for storage management called Swordfish. Swordfish defines a customer centric interface for the purpose of managing storage and related data services. Swordfish builds on the DMTF’s Redfish specification’s using RESTful methods and JSON formatting. This session will present an overview of Swordfish, including the scope targeted in the initial (V1) release in 2016, as well as the rationale for this effort.

Designed to meet the expectations of end users for simple, modern and secure management of scalable platform hardware, the DMTF’s Redfish is an open industry standard specification and schema that specifies a RESTful interface and utilizes JSON and OData to help customers integrate solutions within their existing tool chains. This session provides an overview of the Redfish specification, including the base storage models and infrastructure that are used by the SNIA Swordfish extensions (see separate sessions for details).

The SPEC SFS subcommittee is currently finalizing an industry-standard workload that simulates the storage access patterns of large-scale EDA environments. This workload is based upon dozens of traces from production environments at dozens of companies, and it will be available as an addition to the SPEC SFS benchmark suite. Join us to learn more about the storage characteristics of real EDA environments, how we implemented the EDA workload in the SPEC SFS benchmark, and how this workload can help you evaluate the performance of storage solutions.