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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

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

Compute Express Link (CXL) is a rapidly emerging coherent interconnect standard that provides opportunities for memory pooling and sharing. Memory sharing is a well-established software feature that improves memory utilization by avoiding…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Sunita Jain , Nagaradhesh Yeleswarapu , Hasan Al Maruf , Rita Gupta

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

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

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

Large language models (LLMs) training or inference across multiple nodes introduces significant pressure on GPU memory and interconnect bandwidth. The Compute Express Link (CXL) shared memory pool offers a scalable solution by enabling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Dong Xu , Han Meng , Xinyu Chen , Dengcheng Zhu , Wei Tang , Fei Liu , Liguang Xie , Wu Xiang , Rui Shi , Yue Li , Henry Hu , Hui Zhang , Jianping Jiang , Dong Li

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…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing tasks, but their deployment in datacenter environments faces significant challenges due to the massive memory requirements of key-value (KV) caches. During the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Dong Liu , Yanxuan Yu

Memory disaggregation via CXL enables multi-host resource sharing. However, existing CXL sharing mechanisms enforce coarse-grained, host-level permissions only, leaving isolation to the operating system. Today, virtual memory enables…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Kaustav Goswami , Sean Peisert , Venkatesh Akella , Jason Lowe-Power

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

Memory disaggregation has attracted great attention recently because of its benefits in efficient memory utilization and ease of management. So far, memory disaggregation research has all taken one of two approaches: building/emulating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Zhiyuan Guo , Yizhou Shan , Xuhao Luo , Yutong Huang , Yiying Zhang

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 substantial memory requirements of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly for long-context fine-tuning, have renewed interest in CPU offloading to augment limited GPU memory. However, as context lengths grow, relying on CPU memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Yong-Cheng Liaw , Shuo-Han Chen

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

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…

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

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

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

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…