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While Compute Express Link (CXL) enables support for cache-coherent shared memory among multiple nodes, it also introduces new types of failures--processes can fail before data does, or data might fail before a process does. The lack of a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yi Xu , Suyash Mahar , Ziheng Liu , Mingyao Shen , Steven Swanson

Compute eXpress Link (CXL) is a promising technology for memory disaggregation and expansion. Especially, CXL makes it more effectively for large-capacity storage devices such as Solid State Drive (SSD) to be deployed in the memory pool.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yaohui Wang , Zicong Wang , Fanfeng Meng , Yanjing Wang , Yang Ou , Lizhou Wu , Wentao Hong , Xuran Ge , Jijun Cao

Persistent Memory (PM) introduces new opportunities for designing crash-consistent applications without the traditional storage overheads. However, ensuring crash consistency in PM demands intricate knowledge of CPU, cache, and memory…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-25 João Oliveira , João Gonçalves , Miguel Matos

Memory resources in data centers generally suffer from low utilization and lack of dynamics. Memory disaggregation solves these problems by decoupling CPU and memory, which currently includes approaches based on RDMA or interconnection…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Chenjiu Wang , Ke He , Ruiqi Fan , Xiaonan Wang , Yang Kong , Wei Wang , Qinfen Hao

In our exploration of Composable Memory systems utilizing CXL, we focus on overcoming adoption barriers at Hyperscale, underscored by economic models demonstrating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). While CXL addresses the pressing memory…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Angelos Arelakis , Nilesh Shah , Yiannis Nikolakopoulos , Dimitrios Palyvos-Giannas

CXLMemSim is a fast, lightweight simulation framework that enables performance characterization of memory systems based on Compute Express Link (CXL) .mem technology. CXL.mem allows disaggregation and pooling of memory to mitigate memory…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yiwei Yang , Brian Zhao , Yusheng Zheng , Pooneh Safayenikoo , Tanvir Ahmed Khan , Andi Quinn

Emerging Compute Express Link (CXL) enables cost-efficient memory expansion beyond the local DRAM of processors. While its CXL$.$mem protocol provides minimal latency overhead through an optimized protocol stack, frequent CXL memory…

Compute eXpress Link (CXL) has emerged as a key enabler of memory disaggregation for future heterogeneous computing systems to expand memory on-demand and improve resource utilization. However, CXL is still in its infancy stage and lacks…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yanjing Wang , Lizhou Wu , Wentao Hong , Yang Ou , Zicong Wang , Sunfeng Gao , Jie Zhang , Sheng Ma , Dezun Dong , Xingyun Qi , Mingche Lai , Nong Xiao

High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads typically demand substantial memory bandwidth and, to a degree, memory capacity. CXL memory expansion modules, also known as CXL "type-3" devices, enable…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Rohit Sehgal , Vishal Tanna , Vinicius Petrucci , Anil Godbole

The advent of Compute Express Link (CXL) enables SSDs to participate in the memory hierarchy as large-capacity, byte-addressable memory devices. These CXL-enabled SSDs (CXL-SSDs) offer a promising new tier between DRAM and traditional…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Hyunsun Chung , Junhyeok Park , Taewan Noh , Seonghoon Ahn , Kihwan Kim , Ming Zhao , Youngjae Kim

The proliferation of data-intensive applications, ranging from large language models to key-value stores, increasingly stresses memory systems with mixed read-write access patterns. Traditional half-duplex architectures such as DDR5 are…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yiwei Yang , Yusheng Zheng , Yiqi Chen , Zheng Liang , Kexin Chu , Zhe Zhou , Andi Quinn , Wei Zhang

Compute Express Link (CXL) emerges as a solution for wide gap between computational speed and data communication rates among host and multiple devices. It fosters a unified and coherent memory space between host and CXL storage devices such…

The growing demands in the training and inference of Large Language Models (LLMs) are accelerating the adoption of scale-up systems that extend server shared memory through the use of Compute Express Link (CXL)-based load/store…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Karan Pathak , David Atienza , Marina Zapater

Engram conditional memory has emerged as a promising component for LLMs by decoupling static knowledge lookup from dynamic computation. Since Engram exhibits sparse access patterns and supports prefetching, its massive embedding tables are…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Ruiyang Ma , Teng Ma , Zhiyuan Su , Hantian Zha , Xinpeng Zhao , Xuchun Shang , Xingrui Yi , Zheng Liu , Zhu Cao , An Wu , Zhichong Dou , Ziqian Liu , Daikang Kuang , Guojie Luo

The memory system is a major performance determinant for server processors. Ever-growing core counts and datasets demand higher bandwidth and capacity as well as lower latency from the memory system. To keep up with growing demands,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Albert Cho , Anish Saxena , Moinuddin Qureshi , Alexandros Daglis

In GPU graph analytics, the use of external memory such as the host DRAM and solid-state drives is a cost-effective approach to processing large graphs beyond the capacity of the GPU onboard memory. This paper studies the use of Compute…

This work introduces a GPU storage expansion solution utilizing CXL, featuring a novel GPU system design with multiple CXL root ports for integrating diverse storage media (DRAMs and/or SSDs). We developed and siliconized a custom CXL…

Heterogeneous memory technologies are increasingly important instruments in addressing the memory wall in HPC systems. While most are deployed in single node setups, CXL.mem is a technology that implements memories that can be attached to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Stepan Vanecek , Matthew Turner , Manisha Gajbe , Matthew Wolf , Martin Schulz

This paper proposes ScalePool, a novel cluster architecture designed to interconnect numerous accelerators using unified hardware interconnects rather than traditional long-distance networking. ScalePool integrates Accelerator-Centric Links…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Hyein Woo , Miryeong Kwon , Jiseon Kim , Eunjee Na , Hanjin Choi , Seonghyeon Jang , Myoungsoo Jung

The growing prevalence of data-intensive workloads, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), high-performance computing (HPC), in-memory databases, and real-time analytics, has exposed limitations in conventional memory…