Tong Zhang
Chief Scientist at ScaleFlux
About
Tong Zhang is a co-founder and the Chief Scientist of ScaleFlux that focuses on commercializing computational solid-state storage drives. He is also currently a Professor in the Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 2002. His current research areas include memory and data storage systems, computer architecture, and VLSI signal processing. He has graduated 17 PhD students, and co-authored over 160 papers, with over 4900 citations and h-index of 40. Among his many research accomplishments, he made pioneering contributions to establishing the research area of flash memory signal processing and enabling practical implementation of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codecs in commercial data storage and communication systems.
Tong Zhang has presented the following presentations
Bring Compression to Postgres at Zero Cost of Performance
at
Postgres Webinar Series
presented by Tong Zhang
video
This talk will present a solution that allows Postgres users to achieve significant data storage savings through compression at zero CPU/performance cost. The key is to deploy Postgres on new compression-capable solid-state drives (SSDs), which is developed following the current industry trend of empowering data storage devices with additional computing capability. This proposed talk will discu...
more Wed 10 2020 Case Study
Bring Compression to Postgres at Zero Cost of Performance
at
Postgres Conference 2020
Picking the low-hanging fruits of computational storage
presented by Tong Zhang
This proposed talk would present a solution that allows Postgres users to achieve significant data storage savings through compression at zero CPU/performance cost. The key is to deploy Postgres on new compression-capable solid-state drives (SSDs), which is developed following the current industry trend of empowering data storage devices with additional computing capability. This proposed talk ...
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