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Riding The Steadily Rising Enterprise IT Market
It is tough to get excited about mature markets that grow at a steady rate unless it happens to be the most profitable part of the market. …
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Riding CXL Memory Up In A Down Economy
The jittery economy hasn’t been kind to most semiconductor companies, even those like AMD and Nvidia that are growing in the datacenter. …
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Mashing Up CXL And OpenCAPI For Shared Disaggregated Memory
The industry is impatient for disaggregated and shared memory for a lot of reasons, and many system architects don’t want to wait until PCI-Express 6.0 or 7.0 transports are in the field and the CXL 3.0 and beyond protocols that ride on it to reach out to external memory have been tweaked to do proper sharing across servers. …
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Server And Storage Spending Moves The Sticks Out Through 2026
There is a very interesting technical side to IT infrastructure, which we are obviously very keen on exploring here at The Next Platform. …
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Meta’s Velox Means Database Performance Is Not Subject To Interpretation
A decade and a half ago, when Dennard scaling ran out of gas and many of us were starting to first think about what the end of Moore’s Law might look like should that day ever come, a bunch of us were kicking around what it might mean. …
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Samsung Shows Off CXL Server Memory Expander
People have been talking about CXL memory expansion for so long that it seems that it should be here already, but with the dearth of CPUs that can support PCI-Express 5.0 peripherals we have to be patient a little bit longer. …
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The Expanding CXL Memory Hierarchy Is Inevitable – And Good Enough
The Hot Chips 34 conference that is normally held at Stanford University is in full swing this week, and thanks to the coronavirus pandemic is being held entirely online. …
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More People Using More Data Means Wrestling With Exponential Complexity
If there is one job that system architects are always doing, it is to make highly complex data and the applications that chew on it easier to use, thus making that data more accessible to more people and more applications in an ever-expanding virtuous cycle. …
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KAIST Shows Off DirectCXL Disaggregated Memory Prototype
The hyperscalers and cloud builders are not the only ones having fun with the CXL protocol and its ability to create tiered, disaggregated, and composable main memory for systems. …
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Microsoft Azure Blazes The Disaggregated Memory Trail With zNUMA
Dynamic allocation of resources inside of a system, within a cluster, and across clusters is a bin-packing nightmare for hyperscalers and cloud builders. …