Paper Title: Addressing the Latency Gap with Composable Architectures

Paper Abstract: In the past few years, the latency gap between the traditional load/store memory infrastructures and block-focused fabric and storage networks has seen the introduction of new composable architectures, CPU interfaces, processing accelerators, memory technologies and software stacks into the industry. This presentation explores why addressing this latency gap has become so important and discusses the composable architectures enabled by technologies like OpenCAPI, CCIX and Gen-Z.

Paper Author: Larrie Carr, VP Engineering, Rambus

Author Bio: Larrie Carr is a Senior Technical Director with 25 years’ experience architecting and developing complex SoC solutions for PMC-Sierra and Microsemi in communications and storage systems. He is currently focused on memory-centric compute architectures for data center systems and developing product strategies for these markets. Larrie is a board of director and officer in the Gen-Z consortium and a contributor to the OpenCAPI and RISC-V consortiums. He holds numerous patents in semiconductor design, computer architecture, communications and storage systems.