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. …
A system is more than its central processor, and perhaps at no time in history has this ever been true than right now. …
Big Blue has become a big believer in using differential signaling to attach everything – and we mean everything – to the processor. …
It has been a long time coming, and it might have been better if this had been done a decade ago. …
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. …
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. …
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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