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Photonics To Make Celestial HBM3 Memory Fabric

June 28, 2023 Tobias Mann 1

There is no shortage of silicon photonics technologies under development, and every few months it seems like another startup crops up promising massive bandwidth, over longer distances, while using less power than copper interconnects. …

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Rest In Pieces: Servers And CXL

June 15, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 11

If you had to rank the level of hype around specific datacenter technologies, the top thing these days would be, without question, generative AI, probably followed by AI training and inference of all kinds and mixed precision computing in general. …

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Compute Is Easy, Memory Is Harder And Harder

December 13, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 13

What good is a floating point operation embodied in a vector or matrix unit if you can’t get data into fast enough to actually use the compute engine to process it in some fashion in a clock cycle? …

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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 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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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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