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Micron Gears Up For Its Potential Datacenter Memory Boom
If you don’t like gut-wrenching, hair-raising, white-knuckling boom bust cycles, then do not go into the memory business. …
DRAM
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. …
Store
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. …
Store
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. …
Store
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. …
Store
Getting Around The Limits Of Memory To Accelerate Applications
Forget in-memory computing for the moment because it requires a complete re-architecting of applications and most of the time the underlying hardware, too. …
Store
Thanks For The Memories
It is probably a myth that Bill Gates said “640 KB ought to be enough,” and whether or not he said it the truth is that it has never been enough. …
Compute
Rambus, Microsoft Put DRAM Into Deep Freeze To Boost Performance
Energy efficiency and operating costs for systems are as important as raw performance in today’s datacenters. …
Compute
Squeezing The Joules Out Of DRAM, Possibly Without Stacking
Increasing parallelism is the only way to get more work out of a system. …
Compute
Systems To Morph As Memory Options Expand
Compute is by far still the largest part of the hardware budget at most IT organizations, and even with the advance of technology, which allows more compute, memory, storage, and I/O to be crammed into a server node, we still seem to always want more. …