Thinking Memory | SNIA | Experts on Data

Abstract

Compute Express Link (CXL) based memory devices are expected alleviate the ever increasing demand for memory in datacenter applications. CXL devices can be used as memory expansion as well as memory bandwidth expansion when the socket cannot hold enough memory for the applications. Memory pooling devices can reduce the overall need for DRAM, and thereby cost. In addition to providing additional memory to hosts, it is also possible to offload compute tasks to CXL memory devices and free up the CPU for other operations.

In this presentation we will take a look at how we can add compute capability to CXL memory devices. We will look at offloading operations like data analytics, and also telemetry functions like hotness tracking.