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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…

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

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

CXL has been the emerging technology for expanding memory for both the host CPU and device accelerators with load/store interface. Extending memory coherency to the PCIe root complex makes the codesign more flexible in that you can access…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Yiwei Yang

In the landscape of High-Performance Computing (HPC), the quest for efficient and scalable memory solutions remains paramount. The advent of Compute Express Link (CXL) introduces a promising avenue with its potential to function as a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yehonatan Fridman , Suprasad Mutalik Desai , Navneet Singh , Thomas Willhalm , Gal Oren

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…

The trend toward specialized processing devices such as TPUs, DPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs has exposed the weaknesses of PCIe in interconnecting these devices and their hosts. Several attempts have been proposed to improve, augment, or downright…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Alberto Lerner , Gustavo Alonso

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…

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

The disaggregated memory (DM) architecture offers high resource elasticity at the cost of data access performance. While caching frequently accessed data in compute nodes (CNs) reduces access overhead, it requires costly centralized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Hanze Zhang , Kaiming Wang , Rong Chen , Xingda Wei , Haibo Chen

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

Datacenter applications often rely on remote procedure calls (RPCs) for fast, efficient, and secure communication. However, RPCs are slow, inefficient, and hard to use as they require expensive serialization and compression to communicate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Suyash Mahar , Ehsan Hajyjasini , Seungjin Lee , Zifeng Zhang , Mingyao Shen , Steven Swanson

We propose CFS, a distributed file system for large scale container platforms. CFS supports both sequential and random file accesses with optimized storage for both large files and small files, and adopts different replication protocols for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Haifeng Liu , Wei Ding , Yuan Chen , Weilong Guo , Shuoran Liu , Tianpeng Li , Mofei Zhang , Jianxing Zhao , Hongyin Zhu , Zhengyi Zhu

Byte-addressable persistent memory (PM) brings hash tables the potential of low latency, cheap persistence and instant recovery. The recent advent of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Modules (DCPMM) further accelerates this trend. Many new…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Baotong Lu , Xiangpeng Hao , Tianzheng Wang , Eric Lo

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

We present DASH, a C++ template library that offers distributed data structures and parallel algorithms and implements a compiler-free PGAS (partitioned global address space) approach. DASH offers many productivity and performance features…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Karl Fürlinger , Tobias Fuchs , Roger Kowalewski

The \emph{Partial Cache-Coherence (PCC)} model maintains hardware cache coherence only within subsets of cores, enabling large-scale memory sharing with emerging memory interconnect technologies like Compute Express Link (CXL). However,…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Fangnuo Wu , Mingkai Dong , Wenjun Cai , Jingsheng Yan , Haibo Chen

Disaggregated LLM serving improves resource efficiency by separating the compute-intensive prefill phase from the latency-critical decode phase. However, this architecture introduces a fundamental bottleneck: key/value (KV) tensors…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Dongha Yoon , Younghoon Min , Hoshik Kim , Sam H. Noh , Jongryool Kim

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 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