CXL™ Consortium, Gen-Z Consortium™, SNIA and End-Users – Is Disaggregation of Systems the Future?

Authors: Kurtis Bowman (Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Inc, CXL Consortium), Bharath Muthiah (Meta), Glenn Ward (Microsoft Corporation), Erich Hanke (Intelliprop Inc), Jim Hull (Intelliprop Inc), Ahmad Danesh (Microchip Technology Inc), Richelle Alvers (Intel Corporation)

Abstract: The CXL™ Consortium, the Gen-Z Consortium™ and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) are all working to advance the HPC industry. This BoF session at SC21 will feature a panel of experts from CXL™ Consortium, Gen-Z Consortium™ and SNIA and from end users Meta and Microsoft to discuss how the disaggregation of systems and persistent memory are critical to the industry and is being enabled by our technologies. During the BoF session, we invite the HPC community to provide their feedback and ask questions to our panel of experts.

Long Description: The CXL™ Consortium, the Gen-Z Consortium™ and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) are putting together a panel of HPC experts for a BoF session at SC21. The goal of the BoF session is to inform the HPC community on current activities from the three organizations, as well as encourage a Q&A discussion with the community. The organizations will be joined on the panel by end users Facebook and Microsoft.

To support the growing demand for emerging applications in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, the data center industry is moving towards a more disaggregated model to allow for greater flexibility, higher performance and lower cost of ownership. The CXL 2.0 specification includes memory pooling support to maximize utilization, limiting or eliminating the need to overprovision memory. Gen-Z enables disaggregation of memory to provide modularity, interoperability and compatibility between different memory types and SoC devices. SNIA is a leader in enabling users to understand and adopt persistent memory solutions. Persistent memory is non-volatile, byte addressable, low latency memory used to increase system performance and change in computing architecture.

The panel of experts will discuss how the future will look like for HPC and how our organizations are working together to drive the next generation data centers. Additionally, Facebook and Microsoft will share the benefits of disaggregation of systems from an end-user perspective.

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