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what would ram over pcie help with?
by skavi 4y ago
what would ram over pcie help with?
- voxadam 4y agoI'm no expert but I bet some users would enjoy RAM over a switchable PCIe fabric. They'd take a latency hit but would have the potential for massive amounts of memory.
- pbalcer 4y agoMany things. Capacity, Bandwidth, Serviceability [1]. It also paves the road towards disaggregated memory [2]. edit: The official Compute Express Link (CXL) website has an article about the benefits of this technology [3]. [1] - https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/09/07/the-cxl-roadmap-opens-up-the-memory-hierarchy/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/09/07/the-cxl-roadmap-open... [2] - https://pmem.io/blog/2022/01/disaggregated-memory-in-pursuit-of-scale-and-efficiency/ https://pmem.io/blog/2022/01/disaggregated-memory-in-pursuit... [3] - https://www.computeexpresslink.org/post/the-benefits-of-serial-attached-memory-with-compute-express-link https://www.computeexpresslink.org/post/the-benefits-of-seri...