Title:  Cheap, Fast, Low-power Petabytes

Speaker: Steven Swanson (UCSD)


Abstract:  Non-volatile, solid-state storage is poised to radically
alter how computer systems deal with large data sets and persistent
state.  Current flash memories are orders of magnitude improvement
relative to hard drives and disks along a wide range of performance
characteristics, and emerging technologies will push performance,
capacity, and density even further.  This change in the performance of
persistent storage media will force us to rethink the abstractions and
interfaces we use to deal with non-volatile state while enabling new
applications that existing technologies simply cannot support.  In
this talk, I'll describe my group's work on non-volatile memories and
outline the future for these devices and the roles they will play in
computer systems.

Bio:  Steven Swanson joined UCSD in 2006 after earning his PhD at the
University of Washington.  His research interests include
unconventional computer processor designs, advanced storage systems,
and figuring out why, at a fundamental level, his computer is slow.