SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Craig Carlson
Senior Staff Engineer
Intel Corporation
Phil Cayton is a Senior Staff Engineer at Intel Corporation, with 25 years’ experience developing and researching non-volatile local and remote storage and fabrics technologies, particularly NVMe, NVMe-oF, NVMe-MI, InfiniBand and iWARP architectures resulting in 25+ patents.
Related Sessions
Fibre Channel, what’s old is new again, 128GFC and beyond
Abstract: Fibre Channel extends its renowned compatibility and reliability with a new speed, 128GFC. This talk will discuss the newly completed 128GFC specification as well as uses of Fibre Channel in storage disaggregation and machine learning. The speakers, Rupin Mohan and Craig Carlson, have decades of experience in the architecture and standards definition of Fibre Channel and storage systems.
Lions and Tigers and MOE’s, Oh my! (or AI Acceleration and Tools)
In this talk, the author will explore the use of accelerators for the training and inference of models, and look at the proliferation of methods and models in the AI world.
Birds of a Feather: Storage on a UEC network?
Ultra Ethernet (UEC) is the hot new technology that supports today’s AI and HPC workloads. For AI, it is well understood that the expensive accelerators (GPUs) must be constantly supplied with data. In many cases data continues to reside on traditional storage networks which are not designed for the performance and scalability required for today’s HPC and AI workloads. These networks are expected to migrate to UEC for improved bandwidth, tail latency, and scale.
To improve access to the stored data, one clear optimization is to add storage directly to the UEC backend network. While this is an easy goal to state, the actual implementation has many challenges. In this BoF, UEC members and SNIA storage experts will facilitate a discussion about the challenges, potential solutions, and the appropriate way to intersect UEC and storage.