Paper Title: Next-Generation Cloud Storage will be built with DPUs

Paper Abstract: Storage Systems built for the Cloud must address several key requirements - they must be scale-out and workload-centric; and they must have high performance, low TCO and strong security and reliability. In this talk, we describe how the All-Flash Fungible Storage Cluster (FSC) meets these requirements. FSC does not have an x86 CPU inside, it is entirely built using a Fungible DPU - a new class of microprocessor that is 10x faster than traditional CPUs at data-centric computing. We explain why the Fungible DPU is critical in achieving the objectives of Cloud Storage Systems. As DPUs become more prevalent inside cloud and enterprise data centers, we believe more and more storage systems will be built using the DPU due to its compelling advantages. Fungible's full vision is to build Composable Data Centers. We will end the talk by briefly discussing our data center vision and how Fungible DPUs enable disaggregation of GPUs in addition to Flash Storage.

Paper Author: Jaishankar Menon, Chief Scientist, Fungible

Author Bio: Jai Menon is currently Chief Scientist at Fungible. Jai joined Fungible after serving as CTO for multi-billion dollar Systems businesses (Servers, Storage, Networking) at both IBM and Dell. He was an IBM Fellow, IBM’s highest technical honor, and one of the early pioneers who helped create the RAID technology. He also led the team that created the industry’s first, and still the most successful, storage virtualization product and his team at IBM also built one of the fastest and earliest parallel file systems in the world. When he left IBM, Jai was CTO for IBM Systems Group, responsible for guiding 15,000 developers. In 2012, he joined Dell as VP and CTO for Dell Enterprise Solutions Group. In 2013, he became Head of Research and Chief Research Officer for Dell. Jai earned a Doctorate from Ohio State University, holds 53 patents and has published 82 papers and is a recipient of the IEEE Wallace McDowell Award and the IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Systems Award.