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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware
Categories General/Miscellaneous
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 4, 2023

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Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit ZL1S-I-416 Adding Virtual Appliances for the Compute Express Link ( CXL Virtual Switch Appliance) to the IBM LinuxONE .

Adding Virtual Appliances for the Compute Express Link ( CXL Virtual Switch Appliance) to the IBM LinuxONE Merged

Achieving Advanced Virtual AI Data Center based on Compute Express Link Attached Devices.

Please, refer to the other  complementary idea "Adding Compute Express Link CXL3.0 based on PCIe6 and CXL4.0 based on PCIe7 to the IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE [ZL1S-I-415]" 

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     May 3, 2023
    Thank you for submitting this request. IBM has evaluated the request, and has unfortunately determined that it can not be implemented at this time or does not align with the current multi-year strategy. This request may be resubmitted for consideration after 12 months from the date of decline. The request submitter will automatically be notified by email when the request qualifies for reconsideration and resubmission.
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 22, 2023
    This RFE appears to be a duplicate of ZL1S-I-417
  • Guest
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    |     Feb 16, 2023

    CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following:

    1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Now, Xeon Scalable Processor 4 supports CXL 1.1 , but in the future versions they will support CXL 2.0 or CXL 3.0).

    2- Enabling the interconnection between the IBM Z LinuxONE and the future versions of IBM Power Systems, the interconnection can achieve the Memory Area Network, which will push the integration between the IBM z Linux ONE and IBM Power to the Next level of Future AI Data centers.

    3- Enabling the IBM z LinuxONE interconnections with the CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 Networking Hierarchical Switches, which enable the CXL Devices, e.g. FPGA Devices, Memory Devices, Data Storage Devices and other futuristic devices.

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