Qing Zheng Attends the Future of Memory and Storage Conference

Qing Zheng Attends the Future of Memory and Storage Conference

Qing Zheng, a scientist from the New Mexico Consortium and Los Alamos National Laboratory, recently attended the Future of Memory and Storage Conference (FMS), formerly and more widely known as the Flash Memory Summit. This year’s FMS was held August 6-8, 2024 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, California. 

Now in its 18th year, this international venue showcases the latest advancements in memory and storage technologies, providing insight into future trends. The sessions span a wide range of topics, from applications and architectures to enterprise storage, controllers, and beyond.

While attending the conference, Zheng co-demonstrated with SK hynix, an AI memory provider, the world’s first-of-its-kind, Object-based Computational Storage (OCS) system. This innovative system enhances the performance of data-intensive applications like big-data analytics and artificial intelligence by processing data near the storage layer, minimizing the need for large-scale data transfers. 

The OCS demonstration utilized real scientific data, processed with Paraview and the Visualization Tool Kit (VTK), widely used in scientific visualization. By pushing queries closer to storage through NVMe and utilizing tools like Parquet and Apache analytics, the system reduces data movement, making large-scale data analysis more accessible from modest resources such as desktops. This results in faster time to insight and improved efficiency.

This joint research collaboration could revolutionize scientific computing and analytics by integrating the power of OCS with existing HPC tools, offering a more efficient way to handle extreme-scale data challenges.

To learn more about Zheng’s presentations see the full article at: https://discover.lanl.gov/news/0806-computational-storage-system/