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SCM Centric Systems Paradigm

Shaun Astarabadi Senior Technologist/CTO Office November 16-17, 2017 (DOMA Workshop)

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1 Recent Advancement in Storage Technology

2 Evolving Role of Data: Purpose-built architectures

3 NVM System Opportunities

4 Memory-centric Compute

5 Technology Predictions – Martin Fink / WD EVP & CTO

Agenda

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• *512 Gb x3 BiCS die

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MAMR

• WD microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) HDD

• Breakthrough innovation for delivering ultra-high capacity hard disk drives

• Western Digital expects to begin shipping ultra-high capacity MAMR HDDs in 2019 for use in data centers that support Big Data applications across a full range of industries.

Innovation in HDD continues…

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1 Recent Advancement in Storage Technology

2 Evolving Role of Data: Purpose-built architectures

3 NVM System Opportunities

4 Memory-centric Compute

5 Technology Predictions – Martin Fink / WD EVP & CTO

Agenda

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1 Recent Advancement in Storage Technology

2 Evolving Role of Data: Purpose-built architectures

3 NVM System Opportunities

4 Memory-centric Compute

5 Technology Predictions – Martin Fink / WD EVP & CTO

Agenda

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1 Recent Advancement in Storage Technology

2 Evolving Role of Data: Purpose-built architectures

3 NVM System Opportunities

4 Memory-centric Compute

5 Technology Predictions – Martin Fink / WD EVP & CTO

Agenda

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Data-centric Architectures – Hardware Block View

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Memory-centric Storage-centric

DPU DPU

GPU

GPU

GPU

GPU

Storage

ACCL

ACCL

CPU

SCM Memory

DDR

Gen-Z

FPGA FPGA

Network

I/O

CPU DDR

NVMe

NetworkACCL

CPU DRAMDDR

PCIe

Storage Device

Storage Device

Storage Device

Storage Device

Network

Von Neumann

The “Central Processing Unit” becomes the “Coordinating Processing Unit”

DRAM DRAM

SCM Storage

DPUSCM

Storage

FPGASCM

Storage

ACCLSCM

Storage

GPU

SCM Storage

DPUSCM

Storage

FPGASCM

Storage

ACCLSCM

Storage

GPU

SCM Storage

DPUSCM

Storage

FPGASCM

Storage

ACCLSCM

Storage

GPU

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Large-scale Problem Spaces (Use Cases)

• Genomics • FinTech • ML/AI/OLAP • Video Analytics • OLTP & RDBMS • Unstructured DB • Text Search

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1 Recent Advancement in Storage Technology

2 Evolving Role of Data: Purpose-built architectures

3 NVM System Opportunities

4 Memory-centric Compute

5 Technology Predictions – Martin Fink / WD EVP & CTO

Agenda

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Martin Fink - EVP & CTO Western Digital Corporation August 2017 @ FMS

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