SNIA India T/E/N Storage Meetup - Bangalore - September - Hosted by NetApp

Objective: "Deep dive into industry storage standards and Compute Express Link (CXL) architectures across hardware and software ecosystems"

Title: "Composable Memory with CXL: From Silicon to Software (Silicon)"

o Speaker: Mohan Parthasarathy, HPE India Pvt Ltd

Abstract: Core counts have outrun memory channels for a decade. Memory is now the bottleneck — scarce, bandwidth-starved, stranded in the wrong server, and since January, twice the price.

This session covers what CXL actually is and does: its protocols and device types, what each generation added from memory pooling to sharing to CXL 4.0, the real bandwidth and latency numbers, and which vendors have silicon you can order today.

Followed by a Talk on "Composable Memory with CXL: From Silicon to Software (Software)"

o Speaker: Sriram Popuri, NetApp India Pvt Ltd

Abstract: To Linux, CXL memory is just another NUMA node — which is why most software already runs on it unchanged. Getting the memory recognised and tiered is a solved problem. Getting an orchestrator to hand it to a workload is not.
This session walks the stack from kernel to orchestration, then turns to what has actually been deployed: Meta's CXL fleet across millions of servers, what the rest of the industry has really shipped, CXL as a cache tier for AI inference, and five storage ideas nobody has built yet.

Meetup Agenda:

2.00 to 2:30 pm Welcome /Registration

2:30 to 2:35 pm Welcome Address by NetApp

2:35 to 2:50 pm SNIA Introduction by SNIA Board Member

2.50 to 3:50 pm Composable Memory with CXL: From Silicon to Software (Silicon) by Mohan Parthasarathy, HPE India Pvt Ltd

3:50 to 4:50 pm Composable Memory with CXL: From Silicon to Software (Software) by Sriram Popuri, NetApp India Pvt Ltd

4:50 to 5:10 pm Joint Q&A (Both Speakers)

5:10 to 5:15 pm Vote of Thanks

5:15 pm onwards Hi-Tea & Networking

Speakers:

Mohan Parthasarathy, HPE India Pvt Ltd - SNIA India TC chair

Sriram Popuri, NetApp India Pvt Ltd - SNIA India TC Vice Chair

Your registration will be guided by SNIA Rules. Please remember to carry your official ID card.