/CXLPapers

CXL-related

1. CXL Paper

  1. Meta TPP: Transparent Page Placement protocol and Chameleon memory tracking

  2. MS zNUMA: First-generation Memory Disaggregation for Cloud Platforms

  3. KAIST DirectCXL: Direct Access, High-Performance Memory Disaggregation with DirectCXL

  4. CXL-SSD: Hello bytes, bye blocks- PCIe storage meets compute express link for memory expansion

2. Industry Vendor Memory Models

  1. Compute Express Link Overview

  2. ARM: Synchronization Overview and Case Study on Arm Architecture

3. Related Works (e.g. RDMA)

  1. Cache Coherence: Rethinking Software Runtimes for Disaggregated Memory.

  2. Spark on Disaggreagated Memory: Optimizing Performance and Computing Resource Management of in-memory Big Data Analytics with Disaggregated Persistent Memory

  3. Persistence Semantics for Weak Memory

4. Related Books

  1. A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence

  2. Shared Memory Synchronization

  3. Quorum Systems With Applications to Storage and Consensus

  4. Database Replication

5. Open Source Tools

  1. Open Source SSD/NVM etc. simulators. http://camelab.org/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Tools

  2. Arch Concurrency Test. http://diy.inria.fr/doc/litmus.html

  3. A working example of how to use the herd7 Memory Model Tool. https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/architectures-and-processorsblog/posts/how-to-use-the-memory-model-tool

  4. How to generate litmus tests automatically with the diy7 tool. https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/architectures-and-processorsblog/posts/generate-litmus-tests-automatically-diy7-tool http://diy.inria.fr/doc/gen.html

  5. Running litmus tests on hardware using litmus7. https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/architectures-and-processorsblog/posts/running-litmus-tests-on-hardware-litmus7 https://github.com/Compute-Express-Link/litmustestgen

  6. Murphi for Modeling. http://mclab.di.uniroma1.it/site/index.php/software/18-cmurphi

  7. Alloy, Express axiomatic specifications of consistency models. http://alloy.mit.edu

  8. Express axiomatic specifications of consistency models Cat, associated with the Herd tool. http://diy.inria.fr/herd/ .

  9. The spec domain specific language allows for pipeline and coherence protocol implementations to be specified axiomatically http://check.cs.princeton.edu/#tools .

  10. The ppcmem tool (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/ppcmem/help.html) does something similar but is specialized for POWER and ARM memory models

  11. CppMem tool (http://svr- pes20-cppmem.cl.cam.ac.uk/cppmem/) is geared toward the C/C++ language-level memory model.

  12. As far as operational models are concerned, the RMEM tool (https://www.cl.cam. ac.uk/~sf502/regressions/rmem/) has built-in operational models for ARM (multiple vari- ants), POWER (multiple variants), x86-TSO and RISC-V, and also allows for their behaviors to be explored.

  13. MemSynth (http: //memsynth.uwplse.org/) shows how a complete memory model satisfying the litmus tests can be synthesized.