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UCIe™ (Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express™) is an open industry that defines the interconnect offering high-bandwidth, low-latency, power-efficient, and cost-effective on-package connectivity between chiplets.

The UCIe 1.1 Specification delivers valuable improvements that extend reliability mechanisms, provide enhancements for the automotive industry, enable lower-cost implementations, and establish compliance and interoperability testing specifications to establish a vibrant chiplet ecosystem.

In this talk, we'll delve into the transformative potential of selective write-grouping within software-defined storage (SDS) systems, setting it against the backdrop of the Popular Data Concentration (PDC) approach. Both strategies are compatible with Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) and Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) disks with an erasure coding. Write-grouping confines write operations to a limited subset of drives, allowing inactive drives to power down and slash energy consumption by up to 43% in SMR configurations.

Thinking of CXL® as “just a bus” does a disservice to its true value as an opportunity to virtualize system resources. NVMe Over CXL™ is an abstraction of memory resources that combines bulk storage and memory along with persistence to provide a highly efficient combined resource available over multiple APIs including NVMe, DAX, HDM, BAEBI, etc. Data center power is already at crisis levels, largely due to the inefficiency of data movement where far below 1% of data moved is actually used.

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Today’s SSDs are reaching extreme capacities with some coming close to petabytes of storage capacity available to Hosts. However, the SSDs are commonly using embedded computing resources and embedded DRAM controllers to provide access to this massive quantity of storage. Some of the largest drives are leveraging an increased Indirection Unit (IU) size to extend the embedded resources of the drive.

In the age of AI and the continued growth of the cloud, data is more valuable than ever. We will discuss the substantial technical breakthroughs that have enabled HDDs to continue their capacity growth rate, and then explain the difference between the major formatting technologies, CMR vs.

The Open Lakehouse paradigm is a transformative approach designed to minimize data movement and reduce vendor lock-in. Join Alex Merced, Senior Tech Evangelist at Dremio, as he explores the open-source standards driving this innovation. In this talk, Alex will introduce the fundamental technologies and frameworks that enable the creation of flexible, scalable, and cost-effective data platforms.