Samsung Electronics and Red Hat Partnership To Lead Expansion of CXL Memory Ecosystem With Key Milestone – Samsung Global Newsroom

Samsung efficiently verifies CXL reminiscence interoperability in person atmosphere for the primary time within the business with Pink Hat’s newest OS

The development will enable information middle and enterprise clients to make the most of CXL reminiscence for high-performance computing with out main {hardware} changes

Samsung Electronics, a world chief in superior reminiscence know-how, right this moment introduced that for the primary time within the business, it has efficiently verified Compute Specific Hyperlink™ (CXL™) reminiscence operations in an actual person atmosphere with open-source software program supplier Pink Hat, main the enlargement of its CXL ecosystem.

Because of the exponential development of knowledge throughput and reminiscence necessities for rising fields like generative AI, autonomous driving and in-memory databases (IMDBs), the demand for methods with higher reminiscence bandwidth and capability can be rising. CXL is a unified interface customary that connects varied processors, akin to CPUs, GPUs and reminiscence units by means of a PCIe® interface that may function an answer for limitations in present methods when it comes to velocity, latency and expandability.

“Samsung has been working intently with a variety of business companions in areas from software program, information facilities and servers to chipset suppliers, and has been on the forefront of increase the CXL reminiscence ecosystem,” stated Yongcheol Bae, Government Vice President of Reminiscence Product Planning at Samsung Electronics. “Our CXL partnership with Pink Hat is an exemplary case of collaboration between superior software program and {hardware}, which is able to enrich and speed up the CXL ecosystem as an entire.”

On this newest improvement, Samsung has optimized its CXL reminiscence for Pink Hat Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) 9.3 and verified reminiscence recognition, learn and write operations in Pink Hat’s KVM and Podman environments. This enables information middle shoppers to simply use Samsung’s CXL reminiscence with out having to make further changes to their present {hardware}.

“The profitable verification of Samsung’s CXL Reminiscence Expander interoperability with Pink Hat Enterprise Linux is important as a result of it opens up the applicability of the CXL Reminiscence Expander to IaaS¹ and PaaS²-based software program supplied by Pink Hat,” stated Marjet Andriesse, Senior Vice President and Head of Pink Hat Asia Pacific. “This is a vital milestone within the integration of {hardware} and software program to construct an open-source ecosystem for next-generation reminiscence improvement.”

Samsung and Pink Hat are presently working collectively on a “RHEL 9.3 CXL Reminiscence Enabling Information” to assist customers make the most of Samsung’s CXL reminiscence on RHEL 9.3 and construct high-performance computing methods in varied person environments.

The 2 firms first signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in May 2022 to collaborate on next-generation reminiscence and can proceed their efforts by means of the Samsung Reminiscence Analysis Heart (SMRC) in growing CXL open-source and reference fashions. The continuing partnership covers a spread of storage and reminiscence merchandise, together with NVMe SSDs, CXL Reminiscence, computational reminiscence/storage and materials.

¹ Infrastructure as a Service.
² Platform as a Service.