CXL is a cost-effective, flexible, and scalable architectural solution that will shape the data center of the future. It will change how traditional rack and stack architecture of servers and fabric switches are deployed in the data center.
Purpose-built servers that have dedicated fixed resources comprised of CPU, memory, network and storage components will give way to these more flexible and scalable architectures. Servers in the rack – once interconnected to fixed resources for network, storage and compute – will be dynamically composed to meet the demands of modern and emerging workloads such as AI and deep learning. Eventually, the data center will migrate towards complete disaggregation of all server elements, including compute, memory, network, and storage.