Presentation: Software Design for Persistent Memory Systems

Track: Bare Knuckle Performance

Location: Westminster, 4th flr.

Duration: 10:35am - 11:25am

Day of week: Wednesday

Level: Advanced

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Abstract

Nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM) will soon be widely available. Specific software techniques will be required in order to fully realise the potential that NVRAM offers. Byte addressable persistence offers both new opportunities and new challenges. This talk will cover both naive approaches to leveraging NVRAM, and reasons to avoid those approaches, as well as optimal, proven methods for building systems around persistent memory.

Speaker: Howard Chu

Systems Level Developer & CTO @SymasCorp

Howard Chu has been writing Free/Open Source software since the 1980s. His work has spanned a wide range of computing topics, including most of the GNU utilities (gcc, gdb, gmake, etc.), networking protocols and tools, kernel and filesystem drivers, and focused on maximizing the useful work from a system. Howard founded Symas Corp. with 5 other partners in 1999 and serves as its CTO. His current focus is database oriented, covering LDAP, LMDB, and other non-relational database technologies.

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