Leo Interop

Ensuring plug-and-play interoperability for the growing CXL® ecosystem

Deploy CXL-attached memory at scale with confidence

  • Rigorous testing of Leo Memory Controllers with industry-leading hosts, memory, and operating systems
  • Comprehensive testing including PCIe electrical, memory, CXL® compliance and system level for end-to-end coverage
  • Extensive testing with COSMOS software suite for Link, Fleet and RAS telemetry and diagnostics

Interop Bulletins

Hardware and Software Coverage

Example Tests

CXL® Compliance Tests

  • PCIe Electrical Testing
  • Transaction Layer Testing
  • Arbitrator and Multiplexer
  • Power Management Tests
  • Reset and Initialization Tests

System & Memory Tests

  • DDR Tests
  • Stress Tests
  • Traffic Tests
  • Security Tests
  • Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability

Optimizing Deep Learning Recommendation Models with AMD EPYC™ 9005 & Leo CXL Smart Memory Controllers

By Michael Ocampo, Ecosystem Alliance Manager, Astera Labs, and Hasan Maruf, Server Systems Architect, AMD IntroductionRecommendation systems are widely used in a variety of today’s popular applications, such as those commonly used for video streaming, social media, advertisement delivery, and other online services to enhance the user experience, drive engagement, and increase sales….

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AI Demands Purpose-Built Solutions

Learn how Scorpio P-Series Fabric Switches maximize GPU utilization with unparalleled performance, reliability, and scaleAs AI infrastructure advances, the need for purpose-built connectivity becomes more pressing. General-purpose switches, initially designed for a wide range of applications, struggle to meet the demands of high-performance AI workloads, which require reliable, efficient,…

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Building the Case for UALink™: A Dedicated Scale-Up Memory Semantic Fabric

Understanding the LandscapeAs AI models continue to rapidly evolve and drive a need for higher FLOPs and larger memory footprints, AI clusters will need to continue to grow to keep up. As the AI clusters rapidly scale in size from 25,000 GPUs per cluster[1] to 100,000 GPUs to 200,000 GPUs[2], not only is there a need to provide the connectivity between the GPUs in these clusters, but…

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Astera Labs Announces Financial Results for the Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2024

Record quarterly revenue of $113.1 million, up 47% QoQ and up 206% YoY Expanding market opportunities with new Scorpio Fabric Switches, driving higher dollar content in AI platformsSANTA CLARA, CA, U.S. – November 4, 2024 – Astera Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALAB), a global leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for cloud and AI infrastructure, today announced preliminary…

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Astera Labs Introduces New Portfolio of Fabric Switches Purpose-Built for AI Infrastructure at Cloud-Scale

Shipping in pre-production quantities, Scorpio Smart Fabric Switches deliver maximum system utilization and uptime for scale-out PCIe 6 connectivity and scale-up GPU clustering in AI serversSANTA CLARA, CA, U.S. – October 8, 2024 – Astera Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALAB), a global leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for AI and cloud infrastructure, today announced a new…

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Astera Labs Announces Conference Call to Review Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results

SANTA CLARA, CA, U.S. – Oct. 2, 2024 – Astera Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALAB), a global leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for AI and cloud infrastructure, today announced that it will release its financial results for the third quarter 2024 after the close of market on Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. Astera Labs will host a corresponding conference call at 1:30 p.m. Pacific…

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Astera Labs Opens New R&D Hub in Bengaluru to Drive AI and Cloud Innovation

Dr. Shivananda Koteshwar to lead the company’s India operations and spearhead development of innovative connectivity solutions for AI and cloud infrastructureSANTA CLARA, CA, U.S. – September 11, 2024 – Astera Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALAB), a global leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for AI and cloud infrastructure, today announced the official opening of its…

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Interop Testing with Linux Operating Systems and Leo

Learn how Astera Labs is enabling the CXL ecosystem with software support to support disaggregated memory architectures. Astera Labs is working closely with operating system vendors to ensure robust compatibility with Linux environments.In its Cloud-Scale Interop Lab, Astera Labs has successfully completed interoperability with enterprise-grade Linux operating systems from Red Hat and S…

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PCIe Cabling Demo at OCP 2024

At OCP Global Summit 2024, Astera Labs demonstrated its full portfolio of PCIe cabling solutions. The live demos included Aries PCIe/CXL Smart Cable Modules with Active Electrical Cables and Active Optical Cables to deliver extended reach for rack-to-rack and row-to-row configurations.

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CXL Demo for DLRM at OCP Summit 2024

At OCP Global Summit, Astera Labs demonstrated the performance benefits of CXL memory for Deep Learning Recommendation Models (DLRM). The demo featured a 5th Gen AMD EPYC processor, DDR5 memory from Samsung, and four Leo CXL Smart Memory Controllers. The demo showed that by doubling memory capacity and bandwidth in the system, there is about a 70% increase in performance for DLRM.

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