Paper Title: Computational Storage Workloads - Implications for Datacenter Architectures

Paper Abstract: Xilinx is deeply involved in several computational storage products with a range of partners. From this vantage point we have identified the common elements of workloads that map well to Computations Storage Drives (CSDs), Computational Storage Processors (CSPs), and Computational Storage Arrays (CSAs). The properties of these workloads will be outlined with brief examples. As a multi-market foundational silicon company, Xilinx is also active in a wide range of other markets where designs have evolved towards the placement of workload processing at different points in hardware designs. The reasons for where these are placed has an interesting implication on potential future datacenter architectures once the workloads that are aligned with computational storage are considered. Our prediction on how the computational storage trend and rack disaggregation intersect will be presented.

Paper Author: Jamon Bowen, Product Marketing Director, Xilinx

Author Bio: Jamon was an early pioneer in the enterprise flash storage market, setting the requirements and bringing the first enterprise flash array to market in 2007 while at Texas memory Systems (now IBM). He has held board positions at SNIA for the solid state storage initiative and is involved in the computational storage working group. He is currently the Director of Product Planning and Segment Marketing in the Datacenter Group at Xilinx and has held similar positions and TMS (now IBM), LSI (now Broadcom), and Seagate. He has an Electrical Engineering B.S. degree from Colorado School of Mines and started his career as a software developer.