Paper Title: Remote Persistent Memory-The Case for Use Cases

Paper Abstract: Grappling with any emerging new technology requires a disciplined approach to developing the new technology and understanding its application. Remote Persistent Memory is an exciting new technology, but its ultimate impact is not yet in focus. This section describes how a ‘top down’ approach is being applied to the development of Remote Persistent Memory as an emerging technology. To illustrate that tops down approach, this section introduces the work underway in the industry to describe use cases for remote persistent memory, and how those use cases will drive fabric requirements

Paper Author: Paul Grun, OpenFabrics Alliance Chair; Storage I/O and Interconnect Architect, Cray

Author Bio: Paul Grun, Chair, OpenFabrics Alliance, is a senior technologist in Cray’s Storage and Data Management group, where he focuses on applying I/O technology to building large-scale systems. He is also a member of the InfiniBand Trade Association’s Steering Committee and chair of the Technical Working Group. He was chair and principle author for the working group responsible for creating the RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) specification. He also played a key role in creating the InfiniBand transport protocol. During his more than 30 year career, he has been intimately involved in all aspects of server I/O beginning with storage for large mainframe systems and,turning to high performance network architecture. He earned a BSEE from Syracuse University.