PEAK:AIO to Host Sessions on pNFS Lattice at SNIA Developer Conference

PEAK:AIO, a leader in high-performance storage for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC), is set to host a session at the upcoming Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Developer Conference (SDC'26) in Santa Clara, California. The event, taking place from September 28 to 30, will feature discussions on the advancements in parallel file system architecture.

This session will delve into the central breakthrough of pNFS Lattice, which transforms metadata from a fixed infrastructure bottleneck into an elastic, independently scalable service. The presentation aims to move the conversation beyond the initial launch of the project and explore its implications for AI and HPC environments.

This session is designed to provide attendees with an opportunity to discuss pNFS Lattice, share ideas for future development, and explore opportunities for community participation. The BoF session is intended to encourage collaboration among developers, storage architects, and organizations interested in advancing open and scalable parallel file systems.

The SNIA Developer Conference brings together storage architects, developers, engineers, and researchers to explore emerging technologies shaping the future of storage. With technical sessions focused on AI infrastructure, computational storage, memory technologies, and cloud storage, the conference provides an ideal forum for continued discussion around open, standards-based innovations such as pNFS Lattice.

pNFS Lattice was developed through a long-term engineering collaboration between PEAK:AIO and LANL and released under the Linux Foundation. It is designed to address the challenges posed by the expansion of AI clusters, which generate increasingly metadata-intensive workloads. The modular architecture of pNFS Lattice enables metadata services to scale independently of the underlying storage infrastructure, thereby enhancing the performance and resilience of the entire storage environment.

PEAK:AIO's platform delivers high-performance AI storage from a single server to exabytes on any industry-standard hardware. The company is deployed at several prestigious institutions, including Los Alamos National Laboratory, NHS AIDE, Oxford Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Liverpool, the University of Strathclyde MediForge Hub, and the Zoological Society of London.