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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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Intel Declares A Truce Before Bus Wars Flare Up

January 7, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

A system is more than its central processor, and perhaps at no time in history has this ever been true than right now. …

Compute

IBM Readies Power9 “Bandwidth Beast” Kicker

October 1, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Big Blue has become a big believer in using differential signaling to attach everything – and we mean everything – to the processor. …

Compute

Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set

August 20, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 10

It has been a long time coming, and it might have been better if this had been done a decade ago. …

Connect

Intel Offers Up Yet Another Accelerator Interconnect Technology

March 15, 2019 Michael Feldman 1

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

September 5, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

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. …

Compute

Opening Up The Server Bus For Coherent Acceleration

October 17, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

When IBM started to use the word “open” in conjunction with its Power architecture more than three years with the formation of the OpenPower Foundation three years ago, Big Blue was not confused about what that term meant. …

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