Abstract
The talk covers (i) the characteristics of open-channel SSD management, (ii) introduces the new open-channel/Denali interface, (iii) provides background on LightNVM, the Linux subsystem that we designed and implemented for open-channel SSD management, and at last, we show the effectiveness of open-channel SSDs against state-of-art block-based SSDs. Learning Objectives: 1. Understand Open-Channel SSDs 2. Project status 3. Background on storage and applications