CS 201: Samsung@ The Heart of Everything, RAJIV DHAWAN – Samsung SmartSSD: A Versatile Computational Storage Device, STEVE FISCHER, Samsung

Speaker: Rajiv Dhawan - Steve Fischer
Affiliation: Samsung

ABSTRACT : Introduction of Samsung.

 BIO:

Rajiv Dhawan received his Bachelor of Science degree from Simon Fraser University in suburban Vancouver. He then moved on to get his Ph.D. from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec followed by a postdoctoral appointment at Stanford University. Rajiv started his career at DuPont Central Research & joined Samsung Semiconductor in 2016 and is currently Director of Strategic Planning and Business Development. In this role, he manages University Relations for Device Solutions America. In this role, he focuses on collaboration management, technology scouting and Ph.D. recruiting.

ABSTRACT:

Samsung’s Memory Solution Laboratory (MSL) in San Jose is at the forefront of bringing innovation into Samsung’s flash storage and memory products such as SmartSSD, Ethernet SSD, KV-SSD and NVDIMM-P. This talk will introduce Samsung’s SmartSSD product for computational storage. The SmartSSD helps to accelerate applications by incorporating FPGA and SSD into a single storage device. Applications that could potentially benefit from the near data acceleration of SmartSSD include database analytics, video transcoding, image recognition, document search, genomics processing, compression, decompression, encryption and other storage services. Application acceleration kernels for SmartSSD can be developed using Xilinx’s standard SDAccel and Vivado tool chains using either traditional RTL languages or high level synthesis languages such as Xilinx HLS or OpenCL.

BIO:

Stephen Fischer is a Senior Director of Engineering in the Memory Solutions Laboratory at Samsung Semiconductor in San Jose, California, where he has worked for over 3 years and currently leads a team of 25 engineers performing R&D work related to flash memory and storage technologies including Samsung’s new SmartSSD product for computational storage. Prior to Samsung, Stephen worked in lead engineering roles in a number of startup companies in California and New Jersey, most notably as an engineering VP/director at Violin Memory where for 9 years, from the first day of funded operations, he led the architecture and hardware development for Violin’s flash array products. Stephen is from Perth, Western Australia, where he received his PhD from Curtin University and his BE in electrical and electronic engineering from The University of Western Australia. Stephen is married. He enjoys learning different languages, currently Korean, and playing bridge, basketball, squash and snowboarding.

Hosted by Professor Jason Cong

Date/Time:
Date(s) - Oct 24, 2019
4:15 pm - 5:45 pm

Location:
3400 Boelter Hall
420 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles California 90095