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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

Memory dominates datacenter system cost and power. Memory expansion via Compute Express Link (CXL) is an effective way to provide additional memory at lower cost and power, but its effective use requires software-level tiering for…

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

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

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

Modern workloads are demanding increasingly larger memory capacity. Compute Express Link (CXL)-based memory tiering has emerged as a promising solution for addressing this problem by utilizing traditional DRAM alongside slow-tier CXL memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Kevin Song , Jiacheng Yang , Zixuan Wang , Jishen Zhao , Sihang Liu , Gennady Pekhimenko

This paper explores how Compute Express Link (CXL) can transform PCIe-based block storage into a scalable, byte-addressable working memory. We address the challenges of adapting block storage to CXL's memory-centric model by emphasizing…

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

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

The expansion of context windows in large language models (LLMs) to multi-million tokens introduces severe memory and compute bottlenecks, particularly in managing the growing Key-Value (KV) cache. While Compute Express Link (CXL) enables…

CXL-based Computational Memory (CCM) enables near-memory processing within expanded remote memory, presenting opportunities to address data movement costs associated with disaggregated memory systems and to accelerate overall performance.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Suyeon Lee , Kangkyu Park , Kwangsik Shin , Ada Gavrilovska

Memory disaggregation is an emerging technology that decouples memory from traditional memory buses, enabling independent scaling of compute and memory. Compute Express Link (CXL), an open-standard interconnect technology, facilitates…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yujie Yang , Lingfeng Xiang , Peiran Du , Zhen Lin , Weishu Deng , Ren Wang , Andrey Kudryavtsev , Louis Ko , Hui Lu , Jia Rao

The increasing demand for memory in hyperscale applications has led to memory becoming a large portion of the overall datacenter spend. The emergence of coherent interfaces like CXL enables main memory expansion and offers an efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Hasan Al Maruf , Hao Wang , Abhishek Dhanotia , Johannes Weiner , Niket Agarwal , Pallab Bhattacharya , Chris Petersen , Mosharaf Chowdhury , Shobhit Kanaujia , Prakash Chauhan

Compute Express Link (CXL) serves as a rising industry standard, delivering high-speed cache-coherent links to a variety of devices, including host CPUs, computational accelerators, and memory devices. It is designed to promote system…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Yuda An , Shushu Yi , Bo Mao , Qiao Li , Mingzhe Zhang , Ke Zhou , Nong Xiao , Guangyu Sun , Xiaolin Wang , Yingwei Luo , Jie Zhang

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…

Transaction processing systems are the crux for modern data-center applications, yet current multi-node systems are slow due to network overheads. This paper advocates for Compute Express Link (CXL) as a network alternative, which enables…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Zhao Wang , Yiqi Chen , Cong Li , Dimin Niu , Tianchan Guan , Zhaoyang Du , Xingda Wei , Guangyu Sun

The demand for efficient machine learning (ML) accelerators is growing rapidly, driving the development of novel computing concepts such as resistive random access memory (RRAM)-based tiled computing-in-memory (CIM) architectures. CIM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Rebecca Pelke , Jose Cubero-Cascante , Nils Bosbach , Felix Staudigl , Rainer Leupers , Jan Moritz Joseph

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…

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