On 26 June, Dr. Amit Golander, from Astera Labs and a lecturer at Tel Aviv University, will present a talk titled “Persistent-Memory and Memory Pool based Compute Systems”, which will address the potential of emerging persistent‑memory and memory‑pooling technologies to unlock major performance benefits, and what architectural trade‑offs are involved.

Date & Time: 26 June, 16h00

Location: Room 9 (ground floor), INESC-ID

Abstract: “Persistent Memory (PM) is an emerging technology poised to deliver significant gains over flash and traditional block storage, offering faster performance, lower compute overhead, and simpler application design. Realising these benefits, however, requires new software. In parallel, memory pools have emerged as an independent and complementary technology, enabling efficient pooling and sharing memory resources. Since 2014, I’ve led PM and memory pooling architecture at Plexistor, NetApp, Huawei Cloud, and Astera Labs, all pioneers in these domains. Each operated under its distinct business model and hardware generation. In this talk, I will explore the potential and architectural trade-offs, illustrated through three systems I designed.”

Bio: Dr. Amit Golander is a compute infrastructure expert with decades of experience and 90 patents and publications. He co-organizes the ACM SYSTOR and ISAI conferences, teaches AI infrastructure, storage systems, and computer architecture at Tel Aviv University, and advises MSc students. He currently leads Memory and Storage at Astera Labs (via the Pliops acquisition) and previously served as Huawei Cloud Storage CTO (2020–2024). Amit founded Plexistor (acquired by NetApp) and earlier held R&D roles at Tonian (acquired by Primary Data) and IBM.