Swaminathan Sundararaman | Architect and Manager, Data Platform & Engineering
IBM

Future of Memory and Storage - Day 3 @ 09:15

IBM and Samsung demonstrates extreme scale for content-aware storage with a 100-billion vector database

The presentation will showcase IBM’s breakthrough in content‑aware storage (CAS) through the development of a 100‑billion‑vector database running on a single server, enabled in large part by Samsung’s advanced enterprise solid‑state drive technology. By integrating Samsung’s high‑density PM9D3a PCIe® Gen5 NVMe™ SSDs—each delivering up to 30.72TB of capacity and exceptional sequential read/write performance—IBM Research achieves unprecedented vector density and throughput within the IBM Storage Scale System 6000. Samsung’s cutting‑edge, mass‑produced SSDs form the foundation of a storage architecture capable of supporting extreme‑scale semantic search with over 90% recall precision and sub‑700‑millisecond query latency. Combined with IBM’s hierarchical GPU‑accelerated indexing strategy and partnerships with NVIDIA and LanceDB, this collaboration demonstrates how Samsung’s leadership in memory and storage technologies plays a critical role in enabling AI‑driven retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) at enterprise scale. The result is a storage‑centric AI platform that empowers organizations to unlock value from proprietary data while minimizing infrastructure complexity and cost.

Swaminathan Sundararaman, Architect and Manager, Data Platform & Engineering, IBM

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Swaminathan Sundararaman / IBM and Samsung demonstrates extreme scale for content-aware storage with a 100-billion vector database

Swaminathan Sundararaman, Architect and Manager, Data Platform & Engineering,
IBM

Dr. Sundararaman has been leading IBM's industry leading high performance storage product portfolio. Additional detail will be provided once selected.

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