#104: Introduction to Open-Channel/Denali Solid State Drives

Published: Aug. 5, 2019, 4:43 p.m.

The talk covers (i) the characteristics of open-channel SSD management, (ii) introduces the new open-channel/Denali interface, (iii) provides background on LightNVM, the Linux subsystem that we designed and implemented for open-channel SSD management, and at last, we show the effectiveness of open-channel SSDs against state-of-art block-based SSDs. Learning Objectives: 1) Understand Open-Channel SSDs; 2) Project status; 3) Background on storage and applications.