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The Compute Express Link (CXL) is an open industry-standard interconnect between processors and devices such as accelerators, memory buffers, smart network interfaces, persistent memory, and solid-state drives. CXL offers coherency and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Debendra Das Sharma , Robert Blankenship , Daniel S. Berger

After the tremendous success of convolutional neural networks in image classification, object detection, speech recognition, etc., there is now rising demand for deployment of these compute-intensive ML models on tightly power constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Lukas Cavigelli , Luca Benini

Hardware based memory pooling enabled by interconnect standards like CXL have been gaining popularity amongst cloud providers and system integrators. While pooling memory resources has cost benefits, it comes at a penalty of increased…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Chandrahas Tirumalasetty , Narasimha Annapreddy

Memory bandwidth is known to be a performance bottleneck for FPGA accelerators, especially when they deal with large multi-dimensional data-sets. A large body of work focuses on reducing of off-chip transfers, but few authors try to improve…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Corentin Ferry , Nicolas Derumigny , Steven Derrien , Sanjay Rajopadhye

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

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…

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

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

Integrating compute express link (CXL) with SSDs allows scalable access to large memory but has slower speeds than DRAMs. We present ExPAND, an expander-driven CXL prefetcher that offloads last-level cache (LLC) prefetching from host CPU to…

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

Emerging interconnects, such as CXL and NVLink, have been integrated into the intra-host topology to scale more accelerators and facilitate efficient communication between them, such as GPUs. To keep pace with the accelerator's growing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Xu Zhang , Ke Liu , Yisong Chang , Ke Zhang , Mingyu Chen

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

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 (Compute Express Link) is an emerging open industry-standard interconnect between processing and memory devices that is expected to revolutionize the way systems are designed. It enables cache-coherent, shared memory pools in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Gal Assa , Moritz Lumme , Lucas Bürgi , Michal Friedman , Ori Lahav

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

Indirect memory accesses frequently appear in applications where memory bandwidth is a critical bottleneck. Prior indirect memory access proposals, such as indirect prefetchers, runahead execution, fetchers, and decoupled access/execute…

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

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

The recently released persistent memory (PM) offers high performance, persistence, and is cheaper than DRAM. This opens up new possibilities for indexes that operate and persist data directly on the memory bus. Recent learned indexes…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Baotong Lu , Jialin Ding , Eric Lo , Umar Farooq Minhas , Tianzheng Wang