NVIDIA Open Sources cuFile API and GPUDirect Storage Stack
Open sourcing the cuFile API and forming the Storage-Next initiative with over 40 storage companies signals NVIDIA's push to make GPU-direct storage an open industry standard rather than a proprietary feature.
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NVIDIA announced at FMS: The Future of Memory and Storage that it is open sourcing the cuFile API and its underlying storage software stack, components of its GPUDirect Storage technology. The move aims to establish a common interface across platforms and ensure interoperability. Google, Intel, Meta, and NVIDIA will serve as initial maintainers of the xio-sig project on GitHub.
NVIDIA's announcement at FMS: The Future of Memory and Storage in Santa Clara on August 4 covers two related moves. The cuFile API and its storage software stack, part of GPUDirect Storage, will be open sourced, with Google, Intel, Meta, and NVIDIA as initial maintainers of the xio-sig project on GitHub.
The company also formed the Storage-Next initiative with more than 40 storage industry firms, including DDN, Kioxia, and Micron, to agree on how GPU-driven storage should work and develop interoperable open standards. The framework SCADA, which supports Storage-Next, is designed to let large parallel GPUs pull only the data an application needs from storage into GPU memory, bypassing main memory.
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