During the CXL Forum at OCP Global Summit, MemVerge CEO Charles Fan presented accomplishments of the CXL industry since 2019, the development of concept cars occurring today, and his predictions for the future of CXL
3. • Herded over 200 members &
adopters
• Streamlined standards efforts
• Completed 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x specs.
• Ignited billions in investment
Successes Led by CXL Consortium
18. DRAM Expander Market Forecast 22-
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30%
70%
100%
87%
13%
25%
75%
Breakdown by format
Breakdown by use case
Drives
Add-in card
Direct attached memory expansion
Memory pooling
2022
$1.7M
2022
$1.7M
2028
$15B
2028
$15B
“The CXL memory market is expected to take off with the rise of memory pooling”
Memory-Processor Interface 2023 – Focus on CXL
20. Creating a New Industry Focus
“This change of paradigm could give birth to a new industry focused on CXL
memory fabric software, systems and services.” - Yole
21. Memory-as-a-Service Community
Linux OS Open Source & Distros
Software Standards & Specifications
Device & Fabric Management
User Space Data Services
Select Organizations Contributing
22. MemVerge Software for CXL
K8S Schedulers
xPU xPU
xPU xPU
System software
Hardware
Shared Memory
OS/HV OS/HV
OS/HV
OS/HV
App App
App App
…
Global Memory Composer Memory Viewer
Memory Machine
Tiering/
Compression
Snapshot/
Live Migration
Sharing
Provision Compose Schedule App
Profiling
Resource
Monitoring
App-Centric Data Services
Multi-Cell Control Plane
23. Memory Viewer
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24. CXL Forum Activities Expanding to
Accelerate Co-engineering & Co-
marketing
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MemVerge policy: System memory 60%, CXL Memory 40%
Enables applications to take advantage of CXL shared memory
Gismo Library
Links to the application on each node
Provides object lifecycle APIs
C/C++ support
Gismo Manager
Daemon that runs on one of the nodes in the cluster
Manages object store access across nodes