Devesh Rai has held senior software engineer positions over the past 24+ years. Devesh’s extensive experience includes designing and developing host I/O stack, distributed file system, DRaaS, and architecture of firmware for NVMe SSDs.
Fixed Function Compute is a SNIA project to define methods to use SSD computation resources and memory resources to offload storage related compute operations. This project started by looking at RAID XOR calculations, Hash calculations, and Compression/Decompression functions. Additional operations may be examined in the future. This will enable reduced host CPU utilization, reduced host memory and network bandwidth utilization by bringing these computational operations closer to where the data is stored.