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Just How Bad Is CXL Memory Latency?
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
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 Gen-Z For Shared Disaggregated Memory
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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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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CXL Borgs IBM’s OpenCAPI, Weaves Memory Fabrics With 3.0 Spec
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
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. …
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The Future Of System Memory Is Mostly CXL
What is the most expensive component that hyperscalers and cloud builders put into their X86 servers? …
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Meta Platforms Hacks CXL Memory Tier Into Linux
We have been excited about the possibilities of adding tiers of memory to systems, particularly persistent memories that are less expensive than DRAM but offer similar-enough performance and functionality to be useful. …
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The Five Horsemen of the Data Apocalypse
One could argue that the last few years have highlighted some of the most pressing semiconductor industry issues but there are challenges on the horizon well beyond current supply chain and silicon manufacturing bottlenecks. …