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Publications
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2025
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To stride or not to stride the memory access?
Reviews (DIMES 2025)
the use of CXL 2.0 memory expansion cards on Sapphire Rapids, but SPR only officially supports CXL 1.1 and lacks Type-3 memory expansion support. In fact SPR emulates CXL.mem using CXL.cache flits which [...] analysis. I am uncertain whether the paper passes the bar for the workshop for a couple of reasons: 1. While you did a great job explaining why certain stride sizes performed worse than others, I didn't [...] practical relevance #### The paper does not motivate why single-core, single-threaded throughput on a 1 GiB sequentially laid out array in 4 KiB pages is an important scenario. In practice, most applications …