Vault 2016

Fabric-Attached Memory (Rocky Craig, Hewlett Packard Enterprise) - The Machine from HPE is the prototoype of a novel architecture featuring memory-centric computing. Multiple Linux nodes see fabric-attached NVM in their physical address space as a shared global resource. This presentation introduces the hardware architecture as it relates to the NVM and the challenges in shared management. While NVM presents a key-value paradigm in data retrieval, we chose the route of a global file system. The bulk of the talk will focus on this "Librarian File System" and the benefits of a well-known API versus a proprietary solution.