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.

Tail latencies in networking tend to worry us all, whether we implement distributed storage and compute or whether we connect systems-of-systems in automotive or factory automation, for example. Same goes for the computational burden of processing networking protocols. One of the foundations of reliable networking is TCP, the Transmission Control Protocol which was introduced half a century ago. Today, TCP is ubiquitous: In the datacenter, in mobile communication, the Internet and in (embedded) systems-of-systems.

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Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) is revolutionizing the networked storage paradigm for cloud service providers (CSPs). The type of device enhances system architecture by exposing NVMe PCI devices to the host and offloading network storage tasks onto the IPU. The Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) Acceleration Framework is perfectly suited to operate on these devices, capitalizing on their hardware offloading capabilities for efficient data movement and transformation.

An NVMe-oF IP-Based SAN consists of Multiple Hosts, NVM Subsystems connected to Network switches that provide the IP connectivity. As the number of endpoints(devices) grow, a NVMe IP-Based SAN becomes difficult to manage with traditional discovery mechanisms that require, administrators to explicitly configure each host to access each of the NVM subsystems. To eliminate the challenges of traditional discovery, automated discovery techniques such as Direct Discovery Controller (DDC)/Centralized Discovery Controller (CDC) are recently introduced in the industry, by NVMe experts.

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