The CXL Consortium is an open industry standard group responsible for technical specifications and standards. This episode of Utilizing CXL brings Siamak Tavallaei, CXL president, to discuss the emergence of Compute Express Link. The goal of CXL is to disaggregate servers, moving memory away from the CPU and enabling users to compose servers more flexibly. We have already disaggregated storage from compute, and breaking the fixed memory interconnect will have a similar effect. But we also need the system to be manageable, with software to configure and orchestrate resources. The CXL Consortium is facilitating the development of all this in association with nearly every company in the IT industry.
Hosts and Guest:
Stephen Foskett, Organizer of the Tech Field Day Event Series, part of The Futurum Group. Find Stephen’s writing at GestaltIT.com, on Twitter at @SFoskett, or on Mastodon at @[email protected].
Nathan Bennett, Cloud Architect, vExpert Pro, and Tech Evangelist. Connect with Nathan on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter at @vNathanBennett.
Siamak Tavallaei, President of the CXL Consortium and member of the Open Compute Project. Connect with Siamak on LinkedIn and find out more about OCP and the CXL Consortium.
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