“CXL technology and Gen-Z are gearing up to make big strides across the device connectivity ecosystem. Each technology brings different yet complementary interconnect capabilities required for high-speed communications,” stated Jim Pappas, board chair, CXL Consortium. “We are looking forward to collaborating with the Gen-Z Consortium to enable great innovations for the Cloud and IT world.”
The MOU outlines the formation of frequent workgroups between each organizations to supply clear cooperation, defining bridging between the protocols whereas leveraging the strengths of each applied sciences.
CXL and Gen-Z are each reminiscence semantic protocols (learn/write) that allow excessive pace connectivity to processors, accelerators and reminiscence growth, leading to distinctive architectural alternatives and advantages for implementers. These applied sciences make potential the low latency sharing of reminiscence and storage useful resource swimming pools amongst processing components like CPUs, GPUs, AI Accelerators or FPGAs. CXL focuses on enabling coherent node-level computing, whereas Gen-Z focuses on material connectivity on the rack and row degree.
“CXL and Gen-Z technologies work very well together, and this agreement facilitates collaboration between our organizations that will ultimately benefit the entire industry,” stated Gen-Z Consortium President Kurtis Bowman. “We are excited for this new development toward advancing next-generation architectures.”
To take part within the frequent workgroups, an organization should concurrently be a Promoter or Contributor Member of the CXL Consortium, and a General or Associate Member of the Gen-Z Consortium. To be part of the CXL Consortium, go to www.computeexpresslink.org/be part of. Likewise, to affix the Gen-Z Consortium, go to www.genzconsortium.org.
About the CXL Consortium
The CXL Consortium is an trade requirements physique devoted to advancing Compute Express Link (CXL) know-how. CXL is a high-speed interconnect providing coherency and reminiscence semantics utilizing high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity between the host processor and units corresponding to accelerators, reminiscence buffers, and good I/O units. For extra info or to affix, go to www.computeexpresslink.org.
About the Gen-Z Consortium
Founded in 2017, the Gen-Z Consortium is an trade group creating an open- methods fabric-based structure designed to supply high-speed, low-latency, safe entry to knowledge and units. The Gen-Z Consortium just lately showcased dwell demonstrations of distant reminiscence hooked up throughout a Gen-Z hyperlink. The Consortium is almost 70 members robust and has launched 11 specs to the general public, together with the Core Specification 1.1. For extra info or to affix, go to www.genzconsortium.org.
