It’s been a year since the announcement that Intel would “Wind Down” its Optane 3D XPoint memories. Has anything risen to take its place? Should it? This presentation reviews the alternatives to Optane that are now available or are in development, and evaluates the likelihood that one or more of these could fill the void that is being left behind. We will also briefly review the legacy Optane left behind to see how that legacy is likely to be used to support persistent memories in more diverse applications, including cache memory chiplets. Along the way we’ll show how Optane not only spawned new thinking on software, as embodied in the SNIA Nonvolatile Memory Programming Model, but also drove the creation of new communication protocols, particularly CXL and UCIe.
Riding the Long Tail of Optane’s Comet - Emerging Memories, CXL, UCIe, and More
- Understand the growing role of emerging memory technologies in future processors
- Learn how Persistence, NUMA, and Chiplets have blossomed in Optane's wake
- See how SNIA's NVM Programming Model will support tomorrow's software, even though Optane won't be using it
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- Tom CoughlinCoughlin Associates
SDXI v1.0 is a standard for a memory-to-memory data mover and acceleration interface that is extensible, forward-compatible, and independent of I/O interconnect technology.
CXL, an open industry standard interconnect, addresses the growing high-performance computational workloads to support heterogeneous processing and memory systems with applications in Artificial In
HPC architectures increasingly handle workloads where the working data set cannot be easily partitioned or is too large to fit into node local memory.
- Sharad SinghalHewlett Packard Enterprise
- Clarete CrastaHewlett Packard Enterprise
Delivering high-performance interoperable computational infrastructures is vital to meeting the exponential growth of global data for applications in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Anal
- Sandeep DattaprasadAstera Labs
- Gerry FanXconn Technologies
- Steve ScargallMemVerge
New technologies and platforms have laid waste to the assumptions of fixed-size, monolithic memory.
- Kin-Yip LiuAdvanced Micro Devices Inc
The introduction of CXL has significantly advanced the enablement of memory disaggregation.
Modern memory, storage and content delivery systems are built out of myriad components that provide a dizzying set of parameters used to optimize their cost or performance.
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