Exploring the Software Ecosystem for Compute Express Link (CXL) Memory

Exploring the Software Ecosystem for Compute Express Link (CXL) Memory

CXL Software ecosystem The Compute Express Link (CXL) is going to be a transformative new technology in the heterogeneous memory space. While the transition from Persistent Memory (PMem) to CXL.mem may seem challenging at first, developers who have optimized their applications for PMem will find …

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Dockers usage in PMDK

Dockers usage in PMDK

In this blog post, I’ll describe why we believe dockers are easy to use, time-saving, and valuable for day-to-day programming and debugging. If you have never heard of dockers (or containers in general), please read, for example, this overview. We use dockers in almost all of the repositories …

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Update on PMDK and our long term support strategy

Update on PMDK and our long term support strategy

Following Intel’s Q2 earnings call announcing the wind-down of Intel’s Optane business, Intel will also be winding down its investment in new feature development on Persistent Memory Development Kit (PMDK) libraries and adjusting long-term support and maintenance plans accordingly. The PMDK …

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Introduction to libpmem2 (part 1)

Introduction to libpmem2 (part 1)

A new beginning This blog post will be about the recently created library libpmem2, which is a part of PMDK repository. Before we go into details it’s worth having a short look at the history. About seven years ago, the first persistent memory library known as libpmem was started. The concept …

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Memory Tiering (part 2): Writing Transparent Tiering Solution

Memory Tiering (part 2): Writing Transparent Tiering Solution

This is the second part of the series of articles about memory tiering. The first one explained what memory tiering is and why we need it, the second one will explain some mechanisms behind transparent tiering. This article is intended for those who would like to learn how tiering/numa balancing or …

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