The Storage Networking Industry Alliance (SNIA) announced it will be well represented at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC23).
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Unedited press release follows:
SNIA and Partners at SC23
Denver, CO., November 8, 2023 – The Open Standards Pavilion at SC23, featuring four SNIA technology areas and four SNIA Alliance and Collaboration Partners: DMTF, OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA), UCIe™ (Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express™) Consortium, and Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), will be at Booth 1403 on November 12-17, 2023 in Denver, CO.
Pavilion demonstrations will focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions in computational storage, persistent memory enablement, SSD form factors, scalable storage management with SNIA Swordfish®, secure management with DMTF’s Redfish®, open-source data structures with OFA Sunfish™, the UCIe open standard, and Ethernet specifications for seamless data exchange and computation.
“We are pleased to return to SC23 with an outstanding assembly of the leading technologies and industry standards partners in the HPC space,” said Richelle Ahlvers, Vice Chair of SNIA and Storage Technology Enablement Architect at Intel. “We look forward to engaging with AI and HPC professionals and providers to discuss innovative solutions for the issues they face today.”
The Open Standards Pavilion partners will feature the following:
SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Initiative (SNIA CMSI)
The member companies of the SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Initiative (CMSI) support the industry drive to combine processing with memory and storage and to create new compute architectures and software to analyze and exploit the explosion of data creation over the next decade.
At SC23, Computational Storage Special Interest Group (SIG) members Intel, MinIO, ScaleFlux, Solidigm, and VMware will demonstrate end-to-end integration of computational storage and discuss computational storage drive deployments and use cases to improve efficiency, TCO, and uptime. Persistent Memory SIG member SMART Modular Technologies will demonstrate CXL™ memory module bandwidth and latency. Attendees will be able to program persistent memory in live Workshops and Hackathon sessions.
SNIA SFF Technology Affiliate (SFF TA)
The SNIA SFF Technology Affiliate (SFF TA) develops technical specifications for storage media, storage networks, and pluggable solutions. Their 149 published specifications are used by members as well as organizations including ECIA, ANSI, IEC, PCI-SIG®, INCITS (SCSI, Fibre Channel, ATA), SATA-IO, JEDEC, OIF, OCP, IEEE (Ethernet), and InfiniBand.
At SC23, examples of implementations of solid state drive (SSD) form factors, including EDSFF E.1 and E.3 drives, will be shown, and the latest specifications covering cables, connectors and cages, form factors, management interfaces, copper and optical transceiver modules, and electrical interfaces will be discussed.
SNIA Storage Management Initiative (SMI)
SNIA Swordfish manages storage for enterprise data centers at scale, including NVMe® and NVMe-oF™ technologies. Supported configurations include traditional arrays, file systems and NVMe devices such as EBOFs and JBOFs.
SNIA’s Storage Management Initiative (SMI) supports the development and standardization of interoperable storage management technologies, promoting them to the storage, networking, and end user communities.
At the SC23 Open Standards Pavilion, SMI will demonstrate SNIA Swordfish managing open source implementations of NVMe technology for high-performance computing needs.
DMTF
DMTF’s Redfish is a standard designed to deliver simple and secure management for converged, hybrid IT and the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). Both human readable and machine capable, Redfish leverages common Internet and web services standards to expose information directly to the modern tool chain. Technical work on the Redfish standard takes place in DMTF’s Redfish Forum where they are expanding the coverage of the specification and data model to include datacenter facilities, such as liquid cooling systems and power distribution equipment, in an effort to enable multi-vendor power and cooling efficiency calculations.
At SC23, DMTF will be showing sample implementations of the Redfish management protocol, demonstrating its capabilities for monitoring and control of liquid cooling systems, power distribution gear, CXL and expanded fabrics, server platforms using the same data model and open source tool ecosystem.
OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA)
The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) is an open source based organization that develops, tests, licenses, supports and distributes RDMA/Advanced Networks software and the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution of the RDMA/Advanced Networks software. The Alliance’s mission is to develop and promote software that enables maximum application efficiency by delivering wire-speed messaging, ultra-low latencies, and maximum bandwidth directly to applications with minimal CPU overhead.
The OFA will be demonstrating Sunfish™ (formerly the OpenFabrics Management Framework—OFMF), which provides open-source data structures to help simplify the development of composable distributed disaggregated computer architectures. Sunfish contains abstract data structures that represent computer system resources, available network fabric components and management, current resource operational conditions, and abstracted representations of composed disaggregated computing systems. Experts will also be on hand to discuss other OFA initiatives, such as the Fabric Software Development Platform (FSDP) and OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI).
UCIe Consortium
The UCIe (Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express) Consortium recently announced the release of the UCIe 1.1 Specification to deliver valuable improvements in the chiplet ecosystem, extending reliability mechanisms to more protocols, enabling lower cost implementations, establishing compliance and interoperability testing specifications, supporting broader usage models, and more.
UCIe representatives will be on hand to introduce the UCIe open standard and answer questions regarding the benefits of UCIe technology to the HPC industry. Learn more by visiting www.uciexpress.org.
Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC)
Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) is evolving Ethernet for the demands of AI and HPC. UEC brings together companies for industry-wide cooperation to develop Ethernet specifications and software APIs that empower AI and HPC environments with next-level performance, scalability, and interoperability. UEC is paving the way for seamless data exchange and computation in the digital realm. Meet us at SC23 to discuss how to join the UEC.
About SNIA
SNIA is a not-for-profit global organization made up of corporations, universities, startups, and individuals. The members collaborate to develop and promote vendor-neutral architectures, standards, and education for management, movement, and security for technologies related to handling and optimizing data. SNIA focuses on the transport, storage, acceleration, format, protection, and optimization of infrastructure for data. Learn more at www.snia.org.