Houston Hoffman

Houston Hoffman is a senior software engineer on the CUDA Driver team at NVIDIA focused on high performance work dispatch mechanisms, like CUDA Graphs. He holds a master’s degree in Wireless Embedded Systems from UCSD and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Cal Poly.
Houston Hoffman

Posts by Houston Hoffman

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Simulation / Modeling / Design Sep 11, 2024

Constant Time Launch for Straight-Line CUDA Graphs and Other Performance Enhancements

CUDA Graphs are a way to define and batch GPU operations as a graph rather than a sequence of stream launches. A CUDA Graph groups a set of CUDA kernels and... 8 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design May 10, 2024

Dynamic Control Flow in CUDA Graphs with Conditional Nodes

CUDA Graphs can provide a significant performance increase, as the driver is able to optimize execution using the complete description of tasks and... 7 MIN READ