PreFAM: Understanding the Impact of Prefetching in Fabric-Attached Memory Architectures
Vamsee Reddy Kommareddy, Jagadish Kotra, Clayton Hughes, Simon David Hammond, Amro Awad · 2020
With many recent advances in interconnect technologies and memory interfaces, disaggregated memory systems are approaching industrial adoption. For instance, the recent Gen-Z consortium focuses on a new memory semantic protocol that enables fabric-attached memories (FAM), where the memory and other compute units can be directly attached to fabric interconnects. Decoupling of memory from compute units becomes a feasible option as the rate of data transfer increases due to the emergence of novel interconnect technologies, such as Silicon Photonic Interconnects.