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CXL from promise to reality with real silicon on customer platforms

December 7, 2022 David Gordon 0

Sponsored Post: We all know that inferencing and training AI models needs a lot of CPU muscle, but we don’t necessarily appreciate how important other components are in supporting AI and ML applications. …

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Just How Bad Is CXL Memory Latency?

December 5, 2022 Tobias Mann 6

Conventional wisdom says that trying to attach system memory to the PCI-Express bus is a bad idea if you care at all about latency. …

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Riding CXL Memory Up In A Down Economy

November 18, 2022 Dylan Martin 0

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

November 7, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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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Mashing Up CXL And Gen-Z For Shared Disaggregated Memory

October 31, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

If you are impatient for not just memory pooling powered by the CXL protocol, but the much more difficult task of memory sharing by servers attached to giant blocks of external memory, you are not alone. …

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Samsung Shows Off CXL Server Memory Expander

August 23, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

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

August 22, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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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CXL Borgs IBM’s OpenCAPI, Weaves Memory Fabrics With 3.0 Spec

August 9, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 15

System architects are often impatient about the future, especially when they can see something good coming down the pike. …

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KAIST Shows Off DirectCXL Disaggregated Memory Prototype

July 18, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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

July 11, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Dynamic allocation of resources inside of a system, within a cluster, and across clusters is a bin-packing nightmare for hyperscalers and cloud builders. …

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