Designing and Optimizing Complex CXL Configurations

Mon Sep 16 | 11:35am
Location:
Cypress
Abstract

CXL offers unprecedented opportunities to design and build much larger application and compute arrangements than were available even a few years ago. The ability to connect memory subsystems and other compute resources through a switched network provides a dizzying array of possibilities for custom tailoring an environment for a particular workload.

It also presents perplexing complexity of how to design and configure efficient, right-sized systems. Magnition is collaborating with JackRabbit Labs to provide a CXL simulation environment, allowing you to build intricate CXL configurations using deterministic behavioral simulations of genuine CXL component designs. These models can be run against real-world workloads to make sane design and layout decisions. This can be done without having the number of components, or even any of the components, to build a physical production system.

Join us as we describe how we emulate individual CXL devices and switches and build them into a large-scale simulation environment. With this, you can prove and stress your designs far more easily, cheaply and flexibly than building genuine lab systems.

Learning Objectives

Large-scale CXL systems are changing the way HPC, AI and large application datacenters are being built.
Being able to design and build large, efficient optimized CXL systems is rapidly becoming an insurmountable obstacle.
Large scale simulations allow you to design and configure CXL to run specific workloads, even without components being available.


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Andy Banta
Magnition IO
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