Storage Virtualization and Hardware-agnostic Acceleration Using IPDK and xPU

Explore storage virtualization and hardware acceleration in this 37-minute conference talk from the Storage Developer Conference 2022. Discover how to leverage IPDK, an open-source framework, to create virtual storage devices for accessing remote storage targets using standard drivers like NVMe and virtio-blk. Learn to implement storage solutions in containerized environments using KVM-based IPU simulation for prototyping, and understand how to transition the same host-side software stack to hardware-accelerated platforms like FPGA-based SmartNICs or ASIC-based IPUs. Master the implementation of vendor-agnostic tools and recipes for storage applications, enabling existing applications to benefit from scaled remote storage access and hardware acceleration through SmartNICs, IPUs, and xPUs. Gain practical insights into prototyping solutions without infrastructure costs and understand the integration of various hardware-accelerated platforms with IPDK for storage services offload.