Samsung Electronics and Red Hat collaborate on CXL ecosystem

Samsung Electronics has verified its Compute Express LinkTM memory operations in a real user environment with Red Hat for the first time in the industry.

Leading the expansion of its CXL ecosystem, Samsung Electronics, a global leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that it has successfully verified Compute Express LinkTM (CXLTM) memory operations in a real user environment for the first time in the industry with open-source software provider Red Hat.

The demand for systems with higher memory bandwidth and capacity is rising due to the exponential development of data throughput and memory requirements for developing industries such as autonomous driving, generative AI, and in-memory databases (IMDBs). A unified interface standard called CXL uses a PCIe® interface to link different processors, including CPUs, GPUs, and memory devices. It can overcome current systems' performance, latency, and expandability constraints.

Samsung has confirmed memory identification, read and write operations in Red Hat's KVM and Podman environments, and optimized its CXL memory for Red Hat Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) 9.3. This is Samsung's newest advancement. It eliminates the need for data center clients to modify their current gear to utilize Samsung's CXL memory.

Samsung and Red Hat are actively collaborating on a "RHEL 9.3 CXL Memory Enabling Guide" to enable customers to develop high-performance computing systems in various user settings and use Samsung's CXL memory on RHEL 9.3.