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How To Get Over The Memory Wall
SPONSORED: MemCon 2024 is billed as a one stop shop for emerging technologies in the memory and storage domain, and a hub for efficient data movement and management. …
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Compute
Intel “Emerald Rapids” Xeon SPs: A Little More Bang, A Little Less Bucks
With each successive Intel Xeon SP server processor launch, we can’t help but think the same thing: it would have been better for Intel and customers alike if this chip was out the door a year ago, or two years ago, as must have been planned. …
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Rest In Pieces: Servers And CXL
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. …
AI
CXL from promise to reality with real silicon on customer platforms
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. …
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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 OpenCAPI For Shared Disaggregated Memory
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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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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Samsung Shows Off CXL Server Memory Expander
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. …
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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. …