Mainframe-Style Channel Controllers for Modern Disaggregated Memory Systems
Zikai Liu, Jasmin Schult, Pengcheng Xu, Timothy Roscoe · 2025
Despite the promise of alleviating the main memory bottleneck, and the existence of commercial hardware implementations, techniques for Near-Data Processing have seen relatively little real-world deployment. The idea has received renewed interest with the appearance of disaggregated or "far" memory, for example in the use of CXL memory pools.