A SNIA event
September 15-17, 2025

SPDK and Infrastructure Offload

Fri Sep 30 | 12:50pm
Abstract

Infrastructure offload based around NVMe-oF can deliver performance of direct attached storage with the benefits and composability of shared storage. Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) is a set of drivers and libraries uniquely positioned to demonstrate how projects like Infrastructure Programmer Development Kit (IPDK) can provide vendor agnostic high performance and scalable framework. This session will discuss how the SPDK NVMe-oF target has evolved to enable infrastructure offload.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand what Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) is and interaction between its storage components
  • Understand how NVMe-oF transports can implement device specific interaction to emulate NVMe devices
  • Understand how infrastructure offload impacts orchestration using Live migration as an example

 

Download Presentation
Abstract

Infrastructure offload based around NVMe-oF can deliver performance of direct attached storage with the benefits and composability of shared storage. Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) is a set of drivers and libraries uniquely positioned to demonstrate how projects like Infrastructure Programmer Development Kit (IPDK) can provide vendor agnostic high performance and scalable framework. This session will discuss how the SPDK NVMe-oF target has evolved to enable infrastructure offload.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand what Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) is and interaction between its storage components
  • Understand how NVMe-oF transports can implement device specific interaction to emulate NVMe devices
  • Understand how infrastructure offload impacts orchestration using Live migration as an example

 

PDF icon SNIA-SDC22-Harris-SPDK-and-Infrastructure-Offload.pdf

---

Jim Harris
Intel
Related Sessions
DPUs
OPI (Open Programmable Infrastucture)

A new class of cloud and datacenter infrastructure is emerging into the marketplace.

Favorites
DPUs
DPU as a Storage Initiator for bare metal performance and virtualization

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

PratapaReddy Vaka
Fungible Inc
Favorites
DPUs
Next-Generation Storage will be built with DPUs instead of CPUs

DPUs (data processing units) are an exciting new category of processor that complement CPUs and GPUs inside data centers.

Jai Menon
Fungible
Favorites
DPUs
Hardware Accelerated ZFS using Computational Storage

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

Jason Lee
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Favorites
DPUs
Disaggregated NVMe/TCP Storage Using an Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU)

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).

Yadong Li
Intel
Favorites
DPUs
Accelerating FaaS/container Image Construction via IPU

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.

Yadong Li
Intel
Favorites
DPUs
Storage Virtualization and HW-agnostic Acceleration using IPDK and xPU

Local disk emulation using domain-specific hardware poses a great opportunity for innovation in the storage domain.

Deb Chatterjee
Intel Corporation
Favorites
DPUs
Is storage orchestration a headache? Try infrastructure programming

Connecting remote storage to compute node requires adding and configuring software stacks for “storage over network” in the compute node.

Jaroslaw Kogut
Intel Technology Poland
Favorites