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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…

硬件体系结构 · 计算机科学 2023-09-11 Yiwei Yang

Compute Express Link (CXL) emerges as a solution for wide gap between computational speed and data communication rates among host and multiple devices. It fosters a unified and coherent memory space between host and CXL storage devices such…

The proliferation of data-intensive applications, ranging from large language models to key-value stores, increasingly stresses memory systems with mixed read-write access patterns. Traditional half-duplex architectures such as DDR5 are…

操作系统 · 计算机科学 2025-08-25 Yiwei Yang , Yusheng Zheng , Yiqi Chen , Zheng Liang , Kexin Chu , Zhe Zhou , Andi Quinn , Wei Zhang

Compute Express Link (CXL) switch allows memory extension via PCIe physical layer to address increasing demand for larger memory capacities in data centers. However, CXL attached memory introduces 170ns to 400ns memory latency. This becomes…

硬件体系结构 · 计算机科学 2025-03-14 Khan Shaikhul Hadi , Naveed Ul Mustafa , Mark Heinrich , Yan Solihin

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…

分布式、并行与集群计算 · 计算机科学 2023-03-23 Jacob Wahlgren , Maya Gokhale , Ivy B. Peng

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…

硬件体系结构 · 计算机科学 2025-07-24 Zhao Wang , Yiqi Chen , Cong Li , Dimin Niu , Tianchan Guan , Zhaoyang Du , Xingda Wei , Guangyu Sun

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.…

硬件体系结构 · 计算机科学 2025-01-07 Yaohui Wang , Zicong Wang , Fanfeng Meng , Yanjing Wang , Yang Ou , Lizhou Wu , Wentao Hong , Xuran Ge , Jijun Cao

Conventional heterogeneous computing systems built on PCIe interconnects suffer from inefficient fine-grained host-device interactions and complex programming models. In recent years, many proprietary and open cache-coherent interconnect…

硬件体系结构 · 计算机科学 2026-01-13 Yanjing Wang , Lizhou Wu , Sunfeng Gao , Yibo Tang , Junhui Luo , Zicong Wang , Yang Ou , Dezun Dong , Nong Xiao , Mingche Lai

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…

硬件体系结构 · 计算机科学 2026-04-01 Karan Pathak , David Atienza , Marina Zapater

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…

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…

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…

硬件体系结构 · 计算机科学 2025-11-06 Yiqi Chen , Xiping Dong , Zhe Zhou , Zhao Wang , Jie Zhang , Guangyu Sun

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…

硬件体系结构 · 计算机科学 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

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…

CXL (Compute Express Link) enables multiple hosts to share byte-addressable memory with hardware cache coherence, but no existing filesystem exploits this for lock-free multi-host coordination. We present DaxFS, a Linux filesystem for CXL…

操作系统 · 计算机科学 2026-04-03 Cong Wang , Yiwei Yang , Yusheng Zheng

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 \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,…

操作系统 · 计算机科学 2025-11-11 Fangnuo Wu , Mingkai Dong , Wenjun Cai , Jingsheng Yan , Haibo Chen

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…

硬件体系结构 · 计算机科学 2025-03-27 Yujie Yang , Lingfeng Xiang , Peiran Du , Zhen Lin , Weishu Deng , Ren Wang , Andrey Kudryavtsev , Louis Ko , Hui Lu , Jia Rao

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…

Modern distributed file systems rely on uncoordinated, per node page caches that replicate hot data locally across the cluster. While ensuring fast local access, this architecture underutilizes aggregate cluster DRAM capacity through…

分布式、并行与集群计算 · 计算机科学 2026-04-22 Shai Bergman , Zhe Yang , Julien Eudine , Giorgio Negro , Onur Mutlu , Arash Tavakkol , Ji Zhang