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AI Driven Mass-Storage Evolution

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The extreme growth in modern AI-model training datasets, as well as the explosion of Gen-AI data output are both fueling unprecedented levels of data-storage capacity growth in the datacenters. Such rapid growth in mass-capacity is demanding evolutionary steps in foundational storage technologies to enable higher areal density, optimized data-access interface methodologies and highly efficiency power/cooling infrastructure. We will explore these evolutionary technologies and take a sneak peek at the future of mass data-storage in the AI datacenters.

SMR and HAMR Advancing HDD Areal Density

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This talk reflects on 18 years of SMR evolution —covering physical layouts, filesystems, garbage collection algorithms, device drivers, and simulators.  Furthermore, the talk will also discuss how SMR disks integrated with data storage solutions like RAID and deduplication, including real-world use cases of SMR disks by hyperscalers.

We will also discuss how SMR and HAMR technology interact in the context of AI workloads to provide intriguing new possibilities for HDDs.

OFA Sunfish: New Applications for Distributed Storage with SNIA Swordfish®

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The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA), together with its partners, DMTF, SNIA, and the CXL Consortium, are continuing development of Sunfish, an open-source composable computing system framework, to provide a unified set of tools to control and monitor both computing resources and multiple network fabric types. The Sunfish workgroup has demonstrated management of disaggregated memory systems based on CXL and compute accelerators such as GPUs. We are now expanding our scope to encompass the management of scalable fabric attached storage resources with SNIA Swordfish®.

CSAL with Core Scaling for RAID5F: Revolutionizing Cloud Storage Performance and Reliability

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The Cloud Storage Acceleration Layer (CSAL), an open-source host-based Flash Translation Layer (FTL) within the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK), has redefined cloud storage by transforming random write workloads into sequential patterns, optimizing performance and endurance for high-density NAND SSDs. This proposal introduces an enhanced CSAL framework integrating core scaling with RAID5F—a novel RAID implementation that eliminates the read-modify-write overhead and write hole problem inherent in traditional RAID5.

What’s New with SNIA Swordfish®: Standards-Based Storage Management for Enterprise and Data Center

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Want a deeper look into what’s new in standards-based storage management? Join us for an overview of the latest enhancements and new functionality in SNIA Swordfish® and how it works together with DMTF Redfish® to provide a unified approach for the management of storage and servers in AI, hyperscale and cloud environments. With the broad functionality base in Redfish and Swordfish today, there are now many capabilities available that may not be obvious at first glance. The session will highlight a couple of example use cases of new functionality, including: 

The Latest Features in DMTF Redfish® for Storage Management

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DMTF Redfish® is a fully featured management ecosystem for server management, but what about storage? Isn’t that SNIA Swordfish®?    While Swordfish provides storage-centric functionality, it leverages its base functionality from Redfish. This comprehensive presentation will explore how storage users and implementers can take advantage of the latest features in Redfish directly, including:  

* The latest fabric extensions, including support for CXL, supporting Swordfish and Sunfish   

* Metric changes for streaming telemetry

Total Cost and Performance Analysis of SSDs in AI Data Centers

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“Speeds and Feeds” no longer works. Period. Storage vendors have spent the better part of two decades presenting these facts as if they mean something to the user. While they do have some value, the real need really needs to shift to ownership. Per/GB, IOPS per drive, GB/s, all focus on a single product. Not a net solution need that most people are looking for today.

SSD Virtualization: Enabling New Possibilities for SSD-Based Ecosystems

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A new set of NVM Express® (NVMe®) and Open Compute Project® (OCP) features is revolutionizing the virtualization landscape, enabling a new SSD-supported virtualization ecosystem. This presentation will explore these innovative features and their potential applications in host systems. We will describe an example virtual machine (VM) setup and discuss how the features can be utilized together to create a robust, secure, and performant virtualized environment.

Small Granularity Graph Neural Network Training and the Future of Storage

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Current SSD devices are mostly built with a 4KiB transaction unit, or even larger for bigger drive capacities. But what if your workload has high IOPs demands at smaller granularities? We will take a deep dive into our GNN testing using NVIDIA BaM and the modifications that we made to test smaller than 4K transactions. We will also discuss how this workload is a good example of the need for Storage Next.
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