Paper Title: TORmem's Disaggregated Memory Appliance

Paper Abstract: TORmem's disaggregated memory server is a top-of-rack (TOR) hardware appliance that is optimized for high-speed dynamic memory allocation to other servers in the rack. Our technology easily integrates into any infrastructure type, from cloud to on-premises and beyond. TORmem designs and manufactures disaggregated memory appliances across a range of capabilities and price points. To make these a reality, we need interconnection systems which are built to provide the performance that disaggregated memory requires. The Open Memory Interface (OMI) is a serial differential bus providing 64 gigabytes per second of bandwidth and supporting up to 256 gigabytes per channel. It is designed to provide high bandwidth, low latency access to fast memory by a CPU; these characteristics make it ideal for disaggregated memory and we are implementing it in our products in the differential DIMM (DDIMM) format. Our initial implementation shares memory over traditional Ethernet & PCIe busses with future products sharing over CXL. Our presentation will cover the TORmem's Technology and Product Development Roadmap and progress.

Paper Author: Steven White, CTO, TORmem

Author Bio: Steven’s expertise in hardware and systems engineering is well-regarded across the industry and drives much of how our vision is implemented both at large production scale and in design detail. Founder - CTO