Grant Mackey | Distinguished Engineer
XCENA

Future of Memory and Storage - Day 2 @ 10:20

Validating the XCENA MX1: A Case for Formalized Out-of-Box Evaluation

As CXL transitions from early adoption into broader deployment, the industry lacks a consistent framework for evaluating device readiness. Without shared validation criteria, the ‘out-of-box’ experience for CXL devices remains ill-defined, with customers forced to establish their own methodologies, complicating interoperability assessments and slowing ecosystem maturation. 

In this talk, we evaluate the XCENA MX1 CXL device with the OCP CMSBench workload suite. CMSBench is a (hardware and software) community-driven effort to establish a reproducible, vendor-neutral evaluation platform for native and pooled memory systems (like CXL) via a common, instrumented set of evaluation criteria. We present results from the workload suite across a range of host and device configurations, sharing test logs, validated hardware and software Bills of Materials (BoMs), and configuration guidance developed through this process. 

Attendees will leave this talk with two major takeaways: One, that the MX1 is a production-ready CXL device tested over a wide range of scenarios, and two, that the CMSBench is well-suited to serve as a community-wide baseline for CXL device validation

Grant Mackey, Distinguished Engineer, XCENA

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Grant Mackey / Validating the XCENA MX1: A Case for Formalized Out-of-Box Evaluation

Grant Mackey, Distinguished Engineer,
XCENA

Grant is a Distinguished Engineer at XCENA, where he focuses on software and ecosystem enablement for CXL memory and near-memory computing. Previously, he served as co-founder and CTO of Jackrabbit Labs, a memory fabrics company. An industry veteran with deep expertise in data...

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