Computational Storage Technical Work Group

Updated June 2024

The SNIA Computational Storage Technical Work Group (TWG) has been formed to create standards to promote the interoperability of computational storage devices, and to define interface standards for system deployment, provisioning, management, and security. This will enable storage architectures and software to be integrated with computation in its many forms.

The Computational Storage TWG:

· Acts as the primary technical entity for SNIA to identify, develop, and coordinate computational features to be added to storage devices.

· Produces or extends interfaces to accommodate new features.

· Promotes interoperability (for example Computational Storage API) among devices and systems implementing computational storage features.

· Coordinates the submission of new feature proposals to standards groups (e.g., NVM Express®, T10, and T13).

· Creates software to encourage adoption of these updated features.

· Will assist and cooperate with other SNIA Technical Work Groups, including the Security and Scalable Storage Management TWGs, in their efforts to incorporate or manage these features, and will consider leveraging other SNIA TWG and Alliance partner work.

Current published work by the Computational Storage TWG is Computational Storage Architecture and Programming Model v1.0 and Computational Storage API v1.0. Public review versions of the latest work on the Computational Storage Architecture and Programming Model and Computational Storage API are available on the public review web page. including the draft SNIA Computational Storage Architecture and Programming Model 1.0.4.   Comments on draft documents can be provided via SNIA Feedback Portal.