We’re all in the same boat, and the folks here at SNIA and PIRL know that everyone is getting a tad stir crazy sitting at home. However, there are still some great opportunities to learn while you’re trying to decide which wall of the home office to face tomorrow. SNIA member company, Intel, is offering…
In this time of lockdown, I’m sure we’re all getting a little off kilter. I mean, it’s one thing to get caught up listening to tunes in your office to avoid going out and alerting your family of the fact that you haven’t changed your shirt in two days. It’s another thing to not know…
Last year, the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Non-Volatile Systems Lab (NVSL) teamed with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) to launch a new conference, Persistent Programming In Real Life (PIRL). While not an effort to set the record for acronyms in a conference announcement, we did consider it a side-goal. The PIRL conference…
This year, PIRL is offering the chance to host working meetings for persistent-memory related projects. If you’re involved in such a project, we’d love to have you hold your face-to-face near the beach at PIRL. Last year, several PIRL participants suggested co-located “working meetings” for software (or other) projects related to persistent memory. The idea…
The 2020 SNIA Persistent Memory Summit is coming January 23rd in Santa Clara, CA. There will be a co-located PM Hackathon on January 22nd. For those who have already attended the PM Summit, you will find significant changes in the makeup of the agenda. For those who have never attended, the new agenda might be…
Welcome to the PIRL Blog! It will provide perspectives from thought leaders on programming with persistent memory, associated industry/technology trends, updates about PIRL-related events and activities, and expanded content around presentations from PIRL conferences. In keeping with the spirit of the PIRL workshop, posts will focus single-mindedly on real-world experience using persistent memories to build…
The first PIRL conference has wrapped up and it was a great success. We had 50 attendees, 5 keynotes, and over 20 presentations. More important, there was a great deal of good conversation, and an outstanding sunset. If missed PIRL this year, (almost) all the content is available: Both the program (with the slides) and…