Users of DNA as a digital data storage medium must have confidence that they can reliably recover their stored data, and to understand the competing capabilities and claims of codecs, readers, writers, and container systems as a multi-vendor DNA data storage ecosystem emerges.

Computational storage has emerged as a powerful solution for improving the performance and efficiency of compute systems by offloading computational tasks to storage devices. Emulating computational storage environments is crucial for software development, testing and benchmarking purposes before deploying such systems in production. This proposal presents an approach to emulate Computational Storage Drives(CSDs), Computational Storage Processor (CSPs) and Computational Storage Arrays (CSAs) using QEMU, SPDK, and libvfio-user.

As Cloud industry gears up towards attacking Climate Change – identifying the sources of carbon and other associated impacts is a needed first step to device a plan of action to further sustainability improvements. The cloud storage market is expected to exceed $390B by 2028; hence a key area of focus to reduce Data Center Climate Impact. As a leading force in the cloud solution sector, we recognize the environmental implications.

This talk will show that using carbon footprint as a common metric to assess a set of computing equipment allows straightforward comparison of technologies and designs on a “performance per carbon” basis, bringing together operational (energy use inputs) and scope 3 (production & materials inputs) carbon, along with workload-aligned performance metrics to compare technologies and systems.

Everyone wants to understand how real applications interact with the devices they develop, but what’s the best way? This presentation will show how you can use BPF to analyze application workload interactions with your device in various systems. It will also go over examples of analysis made possible through this data collection.

High-performance computing data centers supporting large-scale simulation applications can routinely generate a large amount of data. To minimize time-to-result, it is crucial that this data be promptly absorbed, processed, and potentially even multidimensionally indexed so that it can be efficiently retrieved when the scientists need it for insights.

SSDs that support Zoned Namespace (ZNS) are increasingly popular for large-scale storage deployments due to their cost efficiency and performance improvements over conventional SSDs, which include 3-4x throughput increase, prolonged SSD lifetime, as well as making QLC media available to I/O heavy workloads. As the zoned storage hardware ecosystem has matured, its open-source software ecosystem has also grown. As a result, we are now emerging at a new stage that provides a solid foundation for large-scale cloud adoption.

The Windows Protocol Test Suites is an open source, cross platform application designed to enable the testing of implementations of selected Windows protocols. It is used both internally at Microsoft to ensure that protocol behaviors are in line with the publicly available protocol specifications, and by protocol implementers to test their own protocol behaviors. In this talk, we'll provide a deep dive into the architecture and design of the Test Suites, discussing some of the design decisions.

This abstract explores the integration of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) on the Microsoft Azure Network Adapter, a specialized network interface card optimized for RDMA workloads in Azure environments. It discusses the advantages of RDMA technology, including reduced latency, improved throughput, and lower CPU utilization. The abstract highlights the configuration options and network protocols supported by the adapter, such as InfiniBand and RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE).

CXL has garnered increasing attention from the industry, with a predominant focus on memory expanders utilizing DRAM-based technology. However, the discontinuation of Optane and the growing demand for extensive memory in new ML models have prompted the storage and system communities to urgently seek alternative solutions. In a keynote address last year, Dr. Ki presented compelling reasons for the storage community to seriously consider CXL adoption.