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Intel Declares A Truce Before Bus Wars Flare Up
A system is more than its central processor, and perhaps at no time in history has this ever been true than right now. …
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Talking System Architecture With AMD CTO Mark Papermaster
It is funny to think that in a certain light, AMD has Big Blue to thank for its resurgence in the datacenter. …
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Intel Offers Up Yet Another Accelerator Interconnect Technology
This week Intel unveiled Compute Express Link (CXL), the chipmaker’s own cache coherent accelerator interconnect that it is grooming to become the industry standard. …
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Future Interconnects: Gen-Z Stitches A Memory Fabric
It is difficult not to be impatient for the technologies of the future, which is one reason that this publication is called The Next Platform. …
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Raising The Standard For Storage Memory Fabrics
People tend to obsess about processing when it comes to system design, but ultimately an application and its data lives in memory and anything that can improve the capacity, throughput, and latency of memory will make all the processing you throw at it result in useful work rather than wasted clock cycles. …
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Weaving Accelerators Into The Memory Complex
In the first part of this series on the proposed Cache Coherence Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX) standard, we talked about the issues of cache coherence and the need to share memory across various kinds of compute elements in a system. …
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Drilling Into The CCIX Coherence Standard
The past decade or so has seen some really phenomenal capacity growth and similarly remarkable software technology in support of distributed-memory systems. …