Paper Title: Flash Solutions for the Skyrocketing AI/ML Applications Market

Paper Abstract: The massive and growing demand for AI/ML applications across all industries is generating requirements for a broad spectrum of storage solutions across multiple use cases. In this rapidly changing environment, storage designers must address an entirely new series of challenges and problems. AI/ML programs require huge data sets and present increasingly challenging bandwidth and latency needs. Training, inference, and computation have their own unique issues, including large numbers of small files, and the emerging requirement for at least an order of magnitude increase in I/O performance from storage systems. New AI chips, as well as GPUs and other high performance processors, will put tremendous pressure on such systems to fill their pipelines and keep them busy. New architectures, new interconnects, and new memory types will all be needed to capitalize fully on opportunities in this multi-billion dollar market. The industry must rise to the occasion with new approaches and capabilities to unleash the full power of AI in tomorrow's marketplace.

Paper Author: Radoslav Danilak, CEO, Tachyum

Author Bio: Dr. Radoslav Danilak has over 25 years of industry experience and over 100 patents designing state-of-the-art processing systems. In 2016, he founded Tachyum to disrupt markets by solving the processing performance plateau of nanometer class chips. Rado was founder and CEO of Skyera, a supplier of ultra-dense solid-state storage systems, acquired by WD in 2014. He won the 2013 Gold Tech Awards Circle for Emerging Company Executive of the Year. At Wave Computing, Rado architected the 10GHz Processing Element of a deep learning DPU. Rado was cofounder and CTO of SandForce acquired by LSI in 2011 for $377M. Rado pioneered enterprise and consumer MLC flash controllers and solved endurance limited by device physics. He was a chipset and GPU architect at nVidia, a CPU architect at Nishan Systems and Toshiba, and chief architect of 64b x86 CPU at Gizmo Tech. Besides being an industry leader in America, Dr. Danilak serves on the Slovak government's Innovation Advisory Board. He is also a member of the IDC Technical Computing Advisory Panel and the Forbes Technology Council, and a contributor to TechTarget. He earned a PhD in Computer Science and an MSEE from the Technical University of Kosice (Slovakia), where he taught compiler courses.