Linux Kernel 6.13 is Released: This is What's New for Compute Express Link (CXL)

How To Install and Boot VMWare VSphere/ESXi from Persistent Memory (or not)

• How to

In a previous post I described how to install and boot Linux using only Persistent Memory, no SSDs are required. For this follow on post, I attempted to install VMWare VSphere/ESXi v7.0u2 onto the persistent memory.

TL;DR - It doesn’t work. The installer doesn’t list the PMem devices, and I was unable to find a way to manually select the PMem device(s).

I assume you followed the previous post to configure sector namespaces that we’ll use to install ESXi.

A Quick Guide to Signing Your Git Commits

• Steve Scargall
• How to

It is important to sign Git commits for your source code to avoid the code being compromised and to confirm to the repository gatekeeper that you are who you say you are. Signing guarantees that my code is my work, it is my copyright and nobody else can fake it. This guide provides the necessary steps to creating private & public keys so you can sign your Git commits.

On Linux or Mac, if you have setup a development environment then you have all the necessary tools for signing.

Understanding STREAM: Benchmarking Memory Bandwidth for DRAM and CXL

• Steve Scargall
• Linux , Cxl

In today’s Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and high-performance computing (HPC) landscape, memory bandwidth is a critical factor in determining overall system performance. As workloads grow increasingly data-intensive, traditional DRAM-only setups are often insufficient, prompting the rise of new memory expansion technologies like Compute Express Link (CXL). To evaluate memory bandwidth across DRAM and CXL devices, we use a modified industry-standard tool called STREAM.

In this blog, we’ll explore what STREAM is, how it works, why it’s commonly used for benchmarking memory bandwidth, and how a modified version of STREAM can be used to measure performance in heterogeneous memory environments, including DRAM and CXL.