awesome-CXL

Quick Intro
Webinars and tutorials
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Quick Intro

3 min video about CXL: Introduction to Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) Technology

2 min video about CXL 2.0: CXL™ 2.0 Overview

3 min video about CXL 3.0: Introducing Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) 3.0

3 min video about CXL Cache Coherency: Exploring Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) Cache Coherency

Webinars and tutorials

CXL insights from the industry

3 Jan 2023, SDC 2022

Contents:
- Architecture and variety of memory services that will be available to developers with the advent of CXL
- The different ways that developers will be able to access the memory services
- Examples of memory service APIs and how to use them
Presented By: Charles Fan, MemVerge
Recording: SDC2022 – Memory Disaggregation and Pooling with CXL

3 Dec 2022, HotChips 34

Contents:
- CXL overview and evolution
- CXL2/CXL3 coherency deep dive
- Memory use cases and challenges
- CXL3 Fabric introduction & use cases
Presented By: Ishwar Agarwal, Robert Blankenship(Intel); Prakash Chauhan, Meta, Mahesh Wagh, Tony Brewer, Micron, and Nathan Kalyanasundharam(AMD)
Recording: HC34-T1: CXL
Slides: Hot Chips 34

Papers and news

8 - 10 August, 2023

July 11, 2023, ATC 2023

Paper: CXL-ANNS: Software-Hardware Collaborative Memory Disaggregation and Computation for Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
Authors: Junhyeok Jang, Computer Architecture and Memory Systems Laboratory, KAIST; Hanjin Choi, Computer Architecture and Memory Systems Laboratory, KAIST and Panmnesia, Inc.; Hanyeoreum Bae and Seungjun Lee, Computer Architecture and Memory Systems Laboratory, KAIST; Miryeong Kwon and Myoungsoo Jung, Computer Architecture and Memory Systems Laboratory, KAIST and Panmnesia, Inc.

July 11, 2023, ATC 2023

Paper: Overcoming the Memory Wall with CXL-Enabled SSDs
Authors: Shao-Peng Yang, Syracuse University; Minjae Kim, DGIST; Sanghyun Nam, Soongsil University; Juhyung Park, DGIST; Jin-yong Choi and Eyee Hyun Nam, FADU Inc.; Eunji Lee, Soongsil University; Sungjin Lee, DGIST; Bryan S. Kim, Syracuse University

12 May 2023, DRAM supporting CXL 2.0

Samsung Develops Industry’s First CXL DRAM Supporting CXL 2.0! See more details here

Building on its development of the industry’s first CXL 1.1-based CXL DRAM in May of 2022, Samsung’s introduction of the 128GB CXL DRAM based on CXL 2.0 is expected to accelerate commercialization of next-generation memory solutions. The new CXL DRAM supports PCle 5.0 interface (x8 lanes) and provides bandwidth of up to 35GB per second.

27 March 2023, CXL 1.1

Paper: Demystifying CXL Memory with Genuine CXL-Ready Systems and Devices
Authors: Yan Sun and Yifan Yuan and Zeduo Yu and Reese Kuper and Ipoom Jeong and Ren Wang and Nam Sung Kim

10 Mar 2023, Software Simulated CXL

Paper: CXLMemSim: A pure software simulated CXL.mem for performance characterization
Authors: Yiwei Yang and Pooneh Safayenikoo and Jiacheng Ma and Tanvir Ahmed Khan and Andrew Quinn
Presentation: CXLMemSim: A pure software simulated CXL.mem for performance characterization #92
source code: CXL.mem Simulator

30 January 2023, ASPLOS 2023

Paper: Pond: CXL-Based Memory Pooling Systems for Cloud Platforms
Authors: Li, Huaicheng and Berger, Daniel S. and Hsu, Lisa and Ernst, Daniel and Zardoshti, Pantea and Novakovic, Stanko and Shah, Monish and Rajadnya, Samir and Lee, Scott and Agarwal, Ishwar and Hill, Mark D. and Fontoura, Marcus and Bianchini, Ricardo
Presentation: ASPLOS'23 - Session 9A - Pond: CXL-Based Memory Pooling Systems for Cloud Platforms
source code: Pond - Compute Express Link (CXL) based Memory Pooling Systems