How Persistent Memory will Change Our Approach to Computing

The data processing industry is approaching a point in which the line of demarcation between storage and memory will become blurred if not eliminated. Memory chips will begin to offer persistent storage. Certain functions of storage will need to be offloaded to this memory. Current coherency models will no longer meet the needs of performance architectures. How will the industry deal with these changes? This presentation explores SNIA’s efforts to produce persistent memory programming standards to create an environment in anticipation of this change.

Learning Objectives

Learn why memory architectures are about to undergo fundamental changes
Understand how today’s memory/storage delineation will eventually disappear
See how SNIA’s nonvolatile memory initiatives will help to solve the problems posed by persistent
Understand how you will need to adapt your approach to computing to accommodate these changes