Carnegie Mellon University

Data Storage Systems Center

College of Engineering

2021 DSSC Fall Technical Review

Wednesday, November 17, 2021: 1-3PM EST
Thursday, December 2, 2021: 8-10PM EST 
All sessions will be held via Zoom

DSSC Review Structure

With the current COVID situation in Pittsburgh and elsewhere, we have decided to hold the Fall DSSC Technical Review online with a 2-hour Zoom session. To best accommodate our sponsor’s varied time zones, we plan to hold same review twice on two different dates:

Wednesday, 11/17/21: 1-3PM EST (10-12PM PST) (convenient for US-based sponsors)
Thursday, 12/02/21: 8-10PM EST (Friday 12/03/21 10AM-12PM JST) (convenient for Asia-based sponsors)

The session includes an overview and highlights of all on-going DSSC research projects and five featured talks by graduate and undergraduate students. Three of these students’ talks will be on future HDD technologies and the other two on technology reviews of the Intel Optane (3D xPoint) SSD and E-MRAM and their commercial opportunities.

After the review, we will follow up with sponsors individually to provide additional review session(s) of specific research project(s) of interests.

Agenda

Session One
Wednesday, November 17
 

All sessions will be held via Zoom 

1:00-1:30PM EST
10:00-10:30AM PST

DSSC Overview
Jimmy Zhu

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1:30-1:50PM EST
10:30-10:50AM PST
Fabrication of Tall Grain HAMR Media
Chengchao Xu
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1:50-2:10PM EST
10:50-11:10AM PST

Tape Out and Testing of ML Chip for HDD Channels
Yuwei Qin
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2:10-2:30PM EST
11:10-11:30AM PST
Improving HAMR NFT Thermal Designs
Wenyi Zhang
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2:30-2:45PM EST
11:30-11:45AM PST

Intel Optane SSD: Technology and Opportunities
Christopher Porco and Jason Chen
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2:45-3:00PM EST
11:45-12:00PM PST

E-MRAM: Present and Future
Katherine Lu and Grace Xiao
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Session One
Thursday, December 2
 

All sessions will be held via Zoom 

8:00-8:30PM EST
10:00-10:30AM JST

DSSC Overview
Jimmy Zhu

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8:30-8:50PM EST
10:30-10:50AM JST
Fabrication of Tall Grain HAMR Media
Chengchao Xu
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8:50-9:10PM EST
10:50-11:10AM JST

Tape Out and Testing of ML Chip for HDD Channels
Yuwei Qin
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9:10-9:30PM EST
11:10-11:30AM JST
Improving HAMR NFT Thermal Designs
Wenyi Zhang
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9:30-10:00PM EST
11:30-12:00PM JST

Machine Learning Enabling Nanolinearity in Read-Heads
Jimmy Zhu
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