Posts by Nikolay Sakharnykh
Technical Walkthrough
Mar 06, 2023
Maximizing Performance with Massively Parallel Hash Maps on GPUs
Decades of computer science history have been devoted to devising solutions for efficient storage and retrieval of information. Hash maps (or hash tables) are a...
19 MIN READ
Technical Walkthrough
Mar 18, 2022
Accelerating Lossless GPU Compression with New Flexible Interfaces in NVIDIA nvCOMP
Compression can improve performance in a variety of use cases such as DL workloads, databases, and general HPC. On the GPU, compression can accelerate inter-GPU...
12 MIN READ
Technical Walkthrough
Oct 05, 2021
Improving GPU Memory Oversubscription Performance
Since its introduction more than 7 years ago, the CUDA Unified Memory programming model has kept gaining popularity among developers. Unified Memory provides a...
16 MIN READ
Technical Walkthrough
Dec 18, 2020
Optimizing Data Transfer Using Lossless Compression with NVIDIA nvcomp
One of the most interesting applications of compression is optimizing communications in GPU applications. GPUs are getting faster every year. For some apps,...
17 MIN READ
News
Apr 15, 2020
Introducing Low-Level GPU Virtual Memory Management
There is a growing need among CUDA applications to manage memory as quickly and as efficiently as possible. Before CUDA 10.2, the number of options available to...
23 MIN READ
Technical Walkthrough
Nov 19, 2017
Maximizing Unified Memory Performance in CUDA
Many of today's applications process large volumes of data. While GPU architectures have very fast HBM or GDDR memory, they have limited capacity. Making the...
18 MIN READ