Costs and risks of implementing High-Performance Embedded Systems such as Centralized Car Servers for Autonomous Vehicles can be reduced when borrowing from modern datacenter technology. Therefore, PCIe and Multi-Gigabit Ethernet have become a foundation for automotive in-vehicle infrastructure. While the needs for storage in automotive are somewhat relaxed, compared to datacenters, automotive has a need for “unconventional” storage connectivity like many sensors to few CPUs to single SSD.

While consistently delivering on bandwidth needs, many storage fabrics have struggled to keep pace with customer expectations around storage infrastructures powered by AIOps, intelligently tiered storage and provisioning. Building an autonomous, self-driving storage fabric requires shared intelligence between endpoints, strong awareness of fabric conditions and decisive action that automates best practices.

We are in the midst of a major technology shift as Storage Devices and Networks are outpacing general purpose Compute. At the same time, the usage models for Storage have become more diverse across requirements for performance, data protection and security. This perfect storm is creating a challenge for storage solutions in meeting application demands while efficiently utilizing hardware resources. A modern data center requires a new architecture for scale-out block storage that can provide this flexibility in a cost effective manner.

This presentation looks at a computational storage use-case within the Human Cell Atlas genomics research and discovers that the deployed HW CS engine is insufficient and why this is the case. The presentation shows the journey from standard system bench marking to micro-benchmarking specifically instruction per cycle analysis (IPC). This presentation also details the programming techniques used along the way, including intrinsic SIMD and inline assembler programming.

All major storage vendors have started to offer NVMe/FC on their storage arrays. Almost all of them also have been offering an IP storage option via 25G ethernet iSCSI. Now with the introduction of NVMe/TCP that offers FC like services (discovery, notification, zoning) storage vendors can provide a software upgrade that would offer NVMe/TCP as an option. Customers have started to evaluate the NVMe transport options and are asking which infrastructure (Enet/FC) should they invest going forward?

Ransomware attack mitigation has been a high profile problem and is getting more visibility in recent years due to the high payback from victims to have their data released. This proposal implements a series of ‘recognition’ triggers within a layered file system on Windows, which forces a caller through a form of 2FA to potentially reduce the impact of the attack. The approach taken by Thales, within the layered file system implementation for data protection, leverages several layers to recognize when a potential threat is executing.

Emergence of serial-attached protocols like CXL and OpenCAPI. It is possible to connect DRAM based devices in the same physical slot as NAND Flash SSD. This paper discusses which pieces of existing NVMe SSD standards, like Mechanical form-factors, management interface protocols, power mode and Thermal profiles, can be reused for DRAM based CXL Memory devices. This will not only save cost, but also accelerate the adoption because you can reuse existing software eco-system and extend it for managing any type of device, whether storage or memory.

Fast, scalable parallel file system performance is a key enabler of massively parallel computing as well as of emerging big data and machine learning applications. Released almost two decades ago, Lustre has long been the storage solution of choice for many supercomputing data centers. But as the world slowly retire rotational disks in favor of fast SSDs and persistent memory for their performance tiers, Lustre is becoming increasingly unable to fully utilize available storage bandwidth due to its old, disk-oriented object storage server designs based on Ext4 derived ldiskfs.

The Quantum computing paradigm shift has changed the way we look at data security these days, especially the long-term security of data. Soon, the fast algorithms will be designed to run on quantum computers which can break some of the most widely used cryptosystems, making them vulnerable. However, to address this issue, Chaos theory is actively being studied as a basis for post-quantum era cryptosystems and advancement has been made in the domain of study. The unique characteristic of chaotic systems can be leveraged to produce highly secure cryptographic systems.

This presentation will discuss Optimal Performance Parameters (OPTPERF and OPTRPERF) found in NVM Express® (NVMe) Section 5.8.2 of NVM Command Set Specification. Every performance parameter (NPWG, NPWA, NPDG, NPDA, NOWS, NPRG, NPRA, NORS) has several choices on setting values by SSD manufacturers. In this presentation, the differences intended for some of the parameters (Ex: NPWG vs NOWS) will be highlighted. Sometimes the parameters may be set by either NAND or SSD Controller attributes.