Local disk emulation using domain-specific hardware poses a great opportunity for innovation in the storage domain. Standard host-side drivers like NVMe or virtio-blk and legacy applications can be enabled to access disaggregated storage at scale using state-of-art protocols like NVMe-oTCP while increasing performance through offload of storage services to the hardware (SmartNIC/DPU/IPU/xPU). In this talk, we present how IPDK, an open-source, vendor-agnostic framework of drivers and APIs for infrastructure offload and management can be used to dynamically create multiple virtual storage devices which a tenant uses to access a remote storage target using standard para-virtualized host-side virtio-blk or NVMe drivers. The attendees will learn how they can use IPDK to exercise the above scenario in a fully containerized environment using KVM-based IPU simulation suitable for rapid prototyping and then run their use cases on accelerated platforms. To demonstrate the HW-agnosticism of the solution we will show how the exact same host-side SW-stack used for prototyping can be used with a real HW-accelerated FPGA-based SmartNIC or an ASIC-based IPU.
Storage Virtualization and HW-agnostic Acceleration using IPDK and xPU
- Learn how IPDK - a Linux Foundation Project for Open Programmable Infrastructure - can help you benefit from a vendor-agnostic, open ecosystems of tools and recipes in storage applications.
- Learn how existing applications can use standard host-side drivers like NVMe or virtio-blk and still benefit from accessing remote storage at scale and run on accelerated platforms like SmartNICs/IPUs/xPUs.
- Learn how you can easily start prototyping solutions at no infrastructure cost in a fully containerized environment using KVM-based IPU simulation.
- Learn about supported HW-accelerated platforms for storage services offload and how new platforms can be integrated with IPDK and usable in a truly HW-agnostic manner.
Local disk emulation using domain-specific hardware poses a great opportunity for innovation in the storage domain. Standard host-side drivers like NVMe or virtio-blk and legacy applications can be enabled to access disaggregated storage at scale using state-of-art protocols like NVMe-oTCP while increasing performance through offload of storage services to the hardware (SmartNIC/DPU/IPU/xPU). In this talk, we present how IPDK, an open-source, vendor-agnostic framework of drivers and APIs for infrastructure offload and management can be used to dynamically create multiple virtual storage devices which a tenant uses to access a remote storage target using standard para-virtualized host-side virtio-blk or NVMe drivers. The attendees will learn how they can use IPDK to exercise the above scenario in a fully containerized environment using KVM-based IPU simulation suitable for rapid prototyping and then run their use cases on accelerated platforms. To demonstrate the HW-agnosticism of the solution we will show how the exact same host-side SW-stack used for prototyping can be used with a real HW-accelerated FPGA-based SmartNIC or an ASIC-based IPU.
- Learn how IPDK - a Linux Foundation Project for Open Programmable Infrastructure - can help you benefit from a vendor-agnostic, open ecosystems of tools and recipes in storage applications.
- Learn how existing applications can use standard host-side drivers like NVMe or virtio-blk and still benefit from accessing remote storage at scale and run on accelerated platforms like SmartNICs/IPUs/xPUs.
- Learn how you can easily start prototyping solutions at no infrastructure cost in a fully containerized environment using KVM-based IPU simulation.
- Learn about supported HW-accelerated platforms for storage services offload and how new platforms can be integrated with IPDK and usable in a truly HW-agnostic manner.
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A new class of cloud and datacenter infrastructure is emerging into the marketplace.
- Venkat PullelaKeysight Technologies
With the NVMe/TCP and disaggregated storage gaining rapid market adoption, it is more clear than ever that Storage Initiator (SI) needs to be more performant and efficient to provide applications w
DPUs (data processing units) are an exciting new category of processor that complement CPUs and GPUs inside data centers.
As hardware layers in storage systems (such as network and storage devices) continue to increase in performance, it is vital that the IO software stack does not fall behind and become the bottlenec
In this presentation, we will describe a complete end-to-end Software Defined Storage (SDS) solution for cloud data centers using Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs).
- Lev SolomonovLightbits Labs
NOTE: this paper was developed by Ziye Yang, a Staff Software Engineer at Intel and is being presented by colleague Yadong Li, a Principal Engineer in the Ethernet Products Group at Intel.
Infrastructure offload based around NVMe-oF can deliver performance of direct attached storage with the benefits and composability of shared storage.
Connecting remote storage to compute node requires adding and configuring software stacks for “storage over network” in the compute node.
- Tomasz ZawadzkiIntel Technology Poland
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September 15-17, 2025
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