Pond: Cxl-based memory pooling systems for cloud platforms

H Li, DS Berger, L Hsu, D Ernst, P Zardoshti… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Public cloud providers seek to meet stringent performance requirements and low hardware
cost. A key driver of performance and cost is main memory. Memory pooling promises to …

Tpp: Transparent page placement for cxl-enabled tiered-memory

HA Maruf, H Wang, A Dhanotia, J Weiner… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The increasing demand for memory in hyperscale applications has led to memory becoming
a large portion of the overall datacenter spend. The emergence of coherent interfaces like …

Managing Memory Tiers with {CXL} in Virtualized Environments

Y Zhong, DS Berger, C Waldspurger, R Wee… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2024 - usenix.org
Cloud providers seek to deploy CXL-based memory to increase aggregate memory
capacity, reduce costs, and lower carbon emissions. However, CXL accesses incur higher …

Memtis: Efficient memory tiering with dynamic page classification and page size determination

T Lee, SK Monga, C Min, YI Eom - … of the 29th Symposium on Operating …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The evergrowing memory demand fueled by datacenter workloads is the driving force
behind new memory technology innovations (eg, NVM, CXL). Tiered memory is a promising …

Towards an adaptable systems architecture for memory tiering at warehouse-scale

P Duraisamy, W Xu, S Hare, R Rajwar… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Fast DRAM increasingly dominates infrastructure spend in large scale computing
environments and this trend will likely worsen without an architectural shift. The cost of …

Expanding datacenter capacity with dvfs boosting: A safe and scalable deployment experience

L Piga, I Narayanan, A Sundarrajan, M Skach… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
COVID-19 pandemic created unexpected demand for our physical infrastructure. We
increased our computing supply by growing our infrastructure footprint as well as expanded …

Demystifying cxl memory with genuine cxl-ready systems and devices

Y Sun, Y Yuan, Z Yu, R Kuper, C Song… - Proceedings of the 56th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The ever-growing demands for memory with larger capacity and higher bandwidth have
driven recent innovations on memory expansion and disaggregation technologies based on …

Contiguitas: The pursuit of physical memory contiguity in datacenters

K Zhao, K Xue, Z Wang, D Schatzberg, L Yang… - Proceedings of the 50th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The unabating growth of the memory needs of emerging datacenter applications has
exacerbated the scalability bottleneck of virtual memory. However, reducing the excessive …

Johnny Cache: the End of {DRAM} Cache Conflicts (in Tiered Main Memory Systems)

B Lepers, W Zwaenepoel - 17th USENIX Symposium on Operating …, 2023 - usenix.org
We demonstrate that hardware management of a tiered memory system offers better
performance for many applications than current methods of software management …

CDPU: Co-designing compression and decompression processing units for hyperscale systems

S Karandikar, AN Udipi, J Choi, J Whangbo… - Proceedings of the 50th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
General-purpose lossless data compression and decompression ("(de) compression") are
used widely in hyperscale systems and are key" datacenter taxes". However, designing …