Rambus to Develop Hybrid Memory System Architectures for Future Data Centers
March 19 2018 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Joins high-performance open standards
organizations to drive innovation in the data center
Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS) today announced a collaboration
with IBM to research hybrid memory systems. Targeting one of the
industry’s key performance challenges, Rambus Labs and IBM aim to
optimize the use of DRAM and emerging memories to create a
high-capacity memory subsystem that delivers comparable performance
to DRAM alone. As part of the collaboration, Rambus will develop a
flexible prototype hybrid memory platform using the OpenCAPI
interface to demonstrate performance of multiple memory types in
real-world server applications.
“The exploding volume of data and rapidly evolving workloads for
Big Data applications are placing tremendous pressure on data
center memory systems for increased performance and capacity,” said
Laura Stark, senior vice president and general manager of the
Emerging Solutions Division at Rambus. “This project with IBM
demonstrates our ongoing collaboration with the industry to
accelerate the development and adoption of advanced memory
solutions.”
Rambus will leverage IBM’s POWER9 processor and its OpenCAPI
high performance interface to build a Hybrid Memory and development
subsystem prototype. To move forward on this project, Rambus
announced it has joined the OpenCAPI Consortium, an open
development community based on Coherent Accelerator Processor
Interface technology, and OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development
community based on the IBM Power Architecture.
“IBM is excited to collaborate with Rambus regarding advanced
memory technologies on the OpenCAPI interface of POWER9 systems,”
said Steve Fields, IBM fellow and chief engineer of Power Systems.
“IBM believes in transforming the architecture of server memory to
allow open innovation and to fully exploit the diversity of memory
technologies that will emerge in the coming years. This project
leverages the new architecture to combine the best attributes of
multiple types of media to achieve new levels of system
cost/performance for memory-intensive cloud deployments and AI
applications.”
Having high-capacity and high-density memory near the processor
improves overall system performance and increases the ability to
more fully utilize CPU resources. Rambus and IBM’s flexible and
innovative hybrid memory system architectures will combine standard
DRAM using other technologies such as Flash, enhanced Flash, Phase
Change Memory (PCM), Resistive RAM (ReRAM) and Spin Torque Transfer
Magnetic RAM (STT-MRAM) to create high capacity memories at lower
cost per bit, with performance levels comparable to that of
DRAM.
Join Rambus at IBM Think 2018
At IBM Think 2018, Kenneth Wright, Senior Director in Rambus
labs, will present the early success in simulation of Hybrid Memory
and outline the future direction of a Collaborative Hybrid Memory
Research Platform with goals of bringing Hybrid Memory into the
Data Center. Come hear Rambus speak on March 19, 2018, within the
OpenPOWER Summit track at the MGM Grand Las Vegas from 2:50 p.m. -
3:20 p.m. in Room 308.
For more information on Rambus Hybrid Memory research, please
visit rambus.com/hybrid-memory.
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About Rambus Emerging Solutions Division
Inspired by the innovative thinking at the heart of Rambus Labs,
our Emerging Solutions Division explores new ways of dealing with
data. Expert in the data center, this pioneering team pushes the
boundaries of speed, performance and efficiency, inventing the
technologies and architectures that will improve the world we live
in. For more information, visit rambus.com/emerging-solutions.
About Rambus Inc.
Dedicated to making data faster and safer, Rambus creates
innovative hardware, software and services that drive technology
advancements from the data center to the mobile edge. Our
architecture licenses, IP cores, chips, software, and services span
memory and interfaces, security, and emerging technologies to
positively impact the modern world. We collaborate with the
industry, partnering with leading chip and system designers,
foundries, and service providers. Integrated into tens of billions
of devices and systems, our products power and secure diverse
applications, including Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT)
security, mobile payments, and smart ticketing. For more
information, visit rambus.com.
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