CoaXiaL: A CXL-Centric Memory System for Scalable Servers

Published in International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC24), 2024

Albert Cho, Anish Saxena, Moinuddin Qureshi, Alexandros Daglis

Queuing delay from contention at memory controller can become a performance bottleneck for bandwidth-heavy workloads. We propose Coaxial, a solution to mitigate the queueing delay by replacing DDR interface with CXL interface, which increases the peak bandwidth by 4X. Coaxial can improve performance of server workloads by 1.39X on average, and by up to 3X.