SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Andrew Maier
Firmware Team Lead
Eideticom
Andrew Maier is the leader of the Firmware Team at Eideticom which is involved in the engineering of the NoLoad Computational Storage solution. Eideticom is a leader in the development of Computational Storage solutions for data center storage and compute. Andrew has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta where his research included the acceleration of LDPC error correction codes using OpenCL for FPGAs.
Related Sessions
Enabling Peer-to-Peer Traffic with NoLoad® NVMe Computational Storage and P2PDMA and Examining Real World Use Cases
The need for efficient data movement in computationally intensive applications has driven advancements in Peer-to-Peer Direct Memory Access (P2PDMA) technology. This need has been greatly exaggerated when discussing AI related applications (information gathering, training, and inference). P2PDMA facilitates direct data transfers between PCIe devices, bypassing the system memory and reducing latency and bandwidth bottlenecks. This framework has been around for many years but is finally starting to see some upstream traction. This presentation will delve into recent significant upgrades to the P2PDMA framework, explore test setups leveraging NVMe Computational Storage, and discuss real-world use cases demonstrating the benefits of P2PDMA and go into further detail of how this can be used in an ever-increasing AI world.