by Shyam Iyer on Aug 6, 2018 | Tags: Data center, Memory
Server architectures have largely been boring. Boring has been good. It has helped applications thrive in a stable H/W ecosystem and innovate at providing business logic. While performance improvements have largely been single thread performance improvements extended to data center class systems, we are beginning to see a new era in Server architecture designs driven by memory technologies, accelerators and fabrics like Gen-Z, CCIX and Open CAPI that glue them.
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X86, Memory centric architectures, Gen-Z, CCIX, Open CAPI
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by Steve Swanson on Jul 19, 2018 | Tags: Memory, non-volatile, Persistent
Mainstream non-volatile main memory (NVMM) is just around the corner: Intel is opening up access to their 3DXpoint technology to a broader range of companies, and we are gradually learning more about the technology. Despite our growing understanding, the question of...
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by Yuan Xie on Jul 12, 2018 | Tags: Accelerators, Emerging Technology, Machine Learning, Memory, Near Data Computing, Specialization
A previous blog titled “Blurring the lines between memory and compute” by R. Das was a nice summary of the history and the recent trends on addressing the memory wall challenges with process-in-memory (PIM) ideas. This blog would like to further highlight...
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by Steve Swanson on Mar 27, 2018 | Tags: Awards, Memory, non-volatile, Persistent
Earlier this month, the 9th annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop took place on the UC San Diego campus. This year, for the first time, the organizing committee created three awards to recognize some of the best work (new and old) in the field of non-volatile memory...
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by Spyros Blanas on Jan 18, 2018 | Tags: Databases, Datacenters, Distributed Systems, Memory, Networking, Operating Systems
Fast, RDMA-capable networks present a “network wall” for data-intensive applications in a data center. Software developers are facing two unpalatable choices: either communicate using messages and re-implement features of TCP/IP in their application, or...
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