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Increasing workload demands and emerging technologies necessitate the use of various memory and storage tiers in computing systems. This paper presents results from a CXL-based Experimental Memory Request Logger that reveals precise memory…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Vinicius Petrucci , Felippe Zacarias , David Roberts

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 emerging as a promising memory interface technology. However, its performance characteristics remain largely unclear due to the limited availability of production hardware. Key questions include: What are the…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Xi Wang , Jie Liu , Jianbo Wu , Shuangyan Yang , Jie Ren , Bhanu Shankar , Dong Li

The ever-growing demands for memory with larger capacity and higher bandwidth have driven recent innovations on memory expansion and disaggregation technologies based on Compute eXpress Link (CXL). Especially, CXL-based memory expansion…

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

The Compute Express Link (CXL) technology facilitates the extension of CPU memory through byte-addressable SerDes links and cascaded switches, creating complex heterogeneous memory systems where CPU access to various endpoints differs in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yiqi Chen , Xiping Dong , Zhe Zhou , Zhao Wang , Jie Zhang , Guangyu Sun

Recent Serverless workloads tend to be largescaled/CPU-memory intensive, such as DL, graph applications, that require dynamic memory-to-compute resources provisioning. Meanwhile, recent solutions seek to design page management strategies…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yuze Li , Shunyu Yao

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

Contrast maximization (CMAX) is a direct geometric framework for event-based motion estimation, but its iterative warp-and-accumulate pipeline incurs input-dependent computation and frequent memory accesses, challenging real-time, low-power…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kyeongpil Min , Jongin Choi , Kyeongwon Lee , Woojoo Lee

Compute Express Link (CXL) is a promising technology that addresses memory and storage challenges. Despite its advantages, CXL faces performance threats from external interference when co-existing with current memory and storage systems.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shunyu Mao , Jiajun Luo , Yixin Li , Jiapeng Zhou , Weidong Zhang , Zheng Liu , Teng Ma , Shuwen Deng

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 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

The Compute Express Link (CXL) interconnect makes it feasible to integrate diverse types of memory into servers via its byte-addressable SerDes links. Considering the various access latency, harnessing the full potential of CXL-based…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Zhe Zhou , Yiqi Chen , Tao Zhang , Yang Wang , Ran Shu , Shuotao Xu , Peng Cheng , Lei Qu , Yongqiang Xiong , Jie Zhang , Guangyu Sun

This paper proposes a novel intelligent framework for oversubscription management in CPU-GPU UVM. We analyze the current rule-based methods of GPU memory oversubscription with unified memory, and the current learning-based methods for other…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Xinjian Long , Xiangyang Gong , Huiyang Zhou

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

Current HPC systems provide memory resources that are statically configured and tightly coupled with compute nodes. However, workloads on HPC systems are evolving. Diverse workloads lead to a need for configurable memory resources to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Jacob Wahlgren , Maya Gokhale , Ivy B. Peng

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

This paper proposes TRAININGCXL that can efficiently process large-scale recommendation datasets in the pool of disaggregated memory while making training fault tolerant with low overhead. To this end, i) we integrate persistent memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Miryeong Kwon , Junhyeok Jang , Hanjin Choi , Sangwon Lee , Myoungsoo Jung

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

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…

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