Kiran K. Modukuri

Kiran Modukuri is a principal software engineer at NVIDIA, where he works on accelerating IO pipelines. He is the co-architect of the GPUDirect Storage product. Before joining NVIDIA, he worked as a senior software engineer at NetApp. He earned a master's in computer science at the University of Arizona. He has over 15 years of experience in distributed filesystems and storage technologies.
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Posts by Kiran K. Modukuri

AI Platforms/Deployment Sep 30, 2026

Expanding AI Storage Access with NVIDIA cuObject and the NVIDIA SCADA Server SDK

AI infrastructure engineers, storage developers, and cloud service providers need fast and secure access to high-capacity file and object storage to support AI... 5 MIN READ
Data Center / Cloud Nov 09, 2021

Accelerating IO in the Modern Data Center: Magnum IO Storage Partnerships

With computation shifting from the CPU to faster GPUs for AI, ML and HPC applications, IO into and out of the GPU can become the primary bottleneck to the... 16 MIN READ
Data Center / Cloud Aug 23, 2021

Accelerating IO in the Modern Data Center: Magnum IO Storage

This is the fourth post in the Accelerating IO series. It addresses storage issues and shares recent results and directions with our partners. We cover the new... 9 MIN READ