Paper Title: Gen-Z: An Ultra High-Speed Interface for System-to-System Communication

Paper Abstract: As the memory storage and processing ecosystem continues to evolve and grow, the open standard specifications developed by Gen-Z enables robust, secure, and composable memory-semantic fabrics for expansion and disaggregation of memory and processors. The Gen-Z interconnect allows shared and provisioned access to Gen-Z attached memory from any of the compute elements (CPU, GPU, FPGA, etc.). This avoids the time and power consumption of associated with current methods that require moving data to the compute memory before applications can be executed. This necessary work is helping to shape the ecosystem and demonstrates the importance of the memory fabric, as Gen-Z attaches to external (and internal) pools of resources like memory, accelerators, NICs, etc. In this presentation, attendees will learn about how Gen-Z will continue to shape the future of the data center and explore Gen-Z's potential impact for memory-centric computing.

Paper Author: Kurtis Bowman, President, Gen Z Consortium

Author Bio: Kurtis Bowman is Director of Technology and Architecture in Dell’s Server CTO Office, where he focuses on identifying pertinent new technologies and integrating them into Dell enterprise products. Kurtis has over 25 years of experience in the architecture, development, and business justification of server, storage, commercial, and consumer computing products. Before joining Dell, he held technical leadership positions at Panasas, a high-performance storage company, and Compaq. He earned a BSEE from New Mexico State University.