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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. …

Store

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. …

Store

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. …

Store

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. …

Store

Getting Around The Limits Of Memory To Accelerate Applications

August 18, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

Forget in-memory computing for the moment because it requires a complete re-architecting of applications and most of the time the underlying hardware, too. …

Store

Thanks For The Memories

June 6, 2018 James Cuff 1

It is probably a myth that Bill Gates said “640 KB ought to be enough,” and whether or not he said it the truth is that it has never been enough. …

Compute

Rambus, Microsoft Put DRAM Into Deep Freeze To Boost Performance

May 6, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Energy efficiency and operating costs for systems are as important as raw performance in today’s datacenters. …

Compute

Squeezing The Joules Out Of DRAM, Possibly Without Stacking

March 23, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Increasing parallelism is the only way to get more work out of a system. …

Compute

Systems To Morph As Memory Options Expand

June 11, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Compute is by far still the largest part of the hardware budget at most IT organizations, and even with the advance of technology, which allows more compute, memory, storage, and I/O to be crammed into a server node, we still seem to always want more. …

Compute

Future Systems: What Will Tomorrow’s Server Look Like?

February 4, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

We can talk about storage and networking as much as we want, and about how the gravity of data bends infrastructure to its needs, but the server – or a collection of them loosely or tightly coupled – is still the real center of the datacenter. …

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