Debugging of Flash Issues Observed in Hyperscale Environment at Scale

Capacity requirements and power consumption are becoming increasingly challenging for hyperscale deployments.

We are in the midst of a major technology shift as Storage Devices and Networks are outpacing general purpose Compute.

Software memory copies have been the gold standard for applications performing memory data movement or operations in system memory.

Samsung recently contributed Poseidon project, which is an OCP-based industry collaboration between component vendor (Samsung), system vendor(Inspur) and data center.

Today, storage and memory hierarchies are manually tuned and sized at design time. But tomorrow’s workloads are increasingly dynamic, multi-tenant and variable.

"There has been tremendous growth in the use of smartphones. Today, there are more than 130 million Android users in the world. Android smartphones leverage flash storage.