Category: Compute Express Link

SNIA Fosters Industry Knowledge of Collaborative Standards Engagements

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November 2024 was a memorable month to engage with audiences at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC) 24 and Technology Live! to provide the latest on collaborative standards development and discuss high performance computing, artificial intelligence, and the future of storage.

At SC24, seven industry consortiums participated in an Open Standards Pavilion to discuss their joint activities in memory and interconnect standards, storage standards, networking fabric standards, and management and orchestration. Technology leaders from DMTF, Fibre Channel Industry Association, OpenFabrics Alliance, SNIA, Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium, Ultra Ethernet Consortium, and Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express™ Consortium shared how these standards are collaborating to foster innovation as technology trends accelerate. CXL® Consortium, NVM Express®, and PCI-SIG® joined these groups in a lively panel discussion moderated by Richelle Ahlvers, Vice Chair SNIA Board of Directors, on their cooperation in standards development. Read More

FAQ on CXL and SDXI

David McIntyre
How are Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) and the SNIA Smart Data Accelerator Interface (SDXI) related? It’s a topic we covered in detail at our recent SNIA Networking Storage Forum webcast, “What’s in a Name? Memory Semantics and Data Movement with CXL and SDXI” where our experts, Rita Gupta and Shyam Iyer, introduced both SDXI and CXL, highlighted the benefits of each, discussed data movement needs in a CXL ecosystem and covered SDXI advantages in a CXL interconnect. If you missed the live session, it is available in the SNIA Educational Library along with the presentation slides. The session was highly rated by the live audience who asked several interesting questions. Here are answers to them from our presenters Rita and Shyam. Q. Now that SDXI v1.0 is out, can application implementations use SDXI today? Read More