Guides on Configuring Your System for Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory (PMem)

Find assistance in configuring your system for Intel® Optane™ persistent memory.

First Steps with Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory

• Getting started video (10 min.): Learn how to manage your Intel® Optane™ persistent memory modules with open source tools like ipmctl and ndctl.
• Introduction to Persistent Memory Programming: Use the Persistent Memory Development Kit (PMDK) to create a new application that takes advantage of Intel® Optane™ persistent memory.

Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory Configuration

• Configuring Intel Optane Persistent Memory for Best Performance (5:35): This video describes how to configure a 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform with Intel® Optane™ persistent memory, and the factors to consider in order to enjoy the best performance.
• Provisioning Intel Optane Persistent Memory in Linux* (54:45): This webinar demonstrates how to provision Intel® Optane™ persistent memory in Linux* using the open source ipmctl and ndctl utilities. See the related article.

Additional Resources

Tools for setting up your system:

• ndctl on GitHub*
• ipmctl on GitHub
• PMDK on GitHub

BIOS Settings for Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory (PMem) Configuration: This article introduces BIOS settings to configure Intel® Optane™ persistent memory.

Module DIMM Population for Intel Optane Persistent Memory: The information provides server documentation populating rules for DRAM and Intel® Optane™ persistent memory.