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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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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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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Disaggregated Memory - In pursuit of scale and efficiency

Disaggregated Memory - In pursuit of scale and efficiency

A software person perspective on new upcoming interconnect technologies. Existing Server Landscape Servers are expensive. And difficult to maintain properly. That’s why most people turn to the public cloud for their hosting and computing needs. Dynamic virtual server instances have been key to …

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