R&D: PiF, In-Flash Acceleration for Data-Intensive Applications
Using prototype PiF SSD based on CoX chips, demonstrates that PiF-based SSDs promising in accelerating data-intensive applications.
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on October 20, 2022 at 2:01 pmACM Digital Library has published, in HotStorage ’22: Proceedings of the 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems June 2022 proceedings, an article written by Myungjun Chun, Jaeyong Lee, Sanggu Lee, Seoul National University, Myungsuk Kim, Kyungpook National University, and Jihong Kim, Seoul National University.
Abstract: “To minimize unnecessary data movements from storage to a host, processing-in-storage (PiS) techniques, which move a compute unit to storage, have been proposed. In this position paper, we propose an extreme version of PiS solutions, called a processing-in-flash (PiF) scheme, that moves computation inside flash chips where data are physically present. As a key building block of a PiF solution, we present a novel flash chip architecture, CoX. Using a prototype PiF SSD based on CoX chips, we demonstrate that PiF-based SSDs are promising in accelerating data-intensive applications.“