SNIA is proud to participate at the Intel Developers Forum this week at Moscone West In San Francisco. Our booth in the NVM Express Community area focuses on SNIA and SSSI work in non volatile memory.
Attendees are very interested in the newly launched SNIA NVM Programming Technical Work Group (NVMp TWG).
The purpose of the NVMp TWG is to create specifications which will provide guidance to operating system, device driver, and application developers to be able to accelerate the availability of hardware-enabling Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) software. A concrete example is database software which can use NVM to assure the database is available quickly after a system reboot.
The TWG will develop two specifications. The first is for NVM Extensions between OS Components. The work on a first version is starting now with an expected completion of about Q4’12. The second specification is for NVM Application Extensions; with the first version expected Q2’13.
The Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) will provide marketing and outreach support to the NVMp TWG, extending its educational mission.
The NVMp TWG is supported by EMC, Fusion-io, HP, Intel (also chairs the TWG), LSI, NetApp, Oracle, Samsung, SanDisk, Seagate, Symantec, Toshiba, Virident, and VMware. More companies are in the process of joining SNIA and the SSSI.
If you are interested in the NVMp TWG, and/or want more information on SSSI activities visit www.snia.org/forums/sssi