STAC Builder Day consists of vendor-led training sessions that equip engineers and developers with ways to build more competitive solutions.

Space is limited. See Eligibility below. Register by clicking 'Get tickets' to secure your spot in this session with ScaleFlux!

ScaleFlux provided the following description of the content they will cover:

"Are you always looking for ways to tweak your servers for more performance, better latency, or better power efficiency? In this training, you’ll gain valuable insight into the inner workings of SSDs and how to leverage your drives to get more from your servers. We will explore how SSDs are designed and constructed starting from a single NAND cell. Participants will learn the key aspects of NAND operation, how NAND is formed into a storage media, and the major components and responsibilities of a storage controller. Throughout this journey, design trade-offs for different SSD applications will be explored. Attendees will leave with a better intuition of SSD operation and use this knowledge to improve how they evaluate or troubleshoot SSD performance, how that SSD performance can impact (positively and negatively) system and application performance, and better understand how future trends such as QLC or PCIe Gen6 will affect the SSD landscape."

Eligibility

End User Organizations

An “End User” organization is a financial organization such as a bank, broker, exchange, hedge fund, prop shop, etc. If your firm is an End User organization that is a NOT member of the Council(see this list), please go ahead and register, then sign up for a free Observer Membership, or we will reach out about membership.

Business Application Vendors

A business-application vendor (BAV) is an organization that does not provide infrastructure but rather provides software or services that deliver business-level functionality to End User organizations. In their capacity as users of technology infrastructure, BAVs may send employees in purely technical job functions (architecture, development, etc.) to this event under the same terms as End User organizations (above).

From a NAND cell to NVMe: Understanding SSDs to get more from your servers