Vivek Kini

Vivek Kini is a senior systems software engineer at NVIDIA. He works on the CUDA driver, with particular focus on memory management features. He aims to simplify memory management for CUDA applications without sacrificing the performance that they demand.
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Posts by Vivek Kini

Data Center / Cloud Jul 27, 2021

Using the NVIDIA CUDA Stream-Ordered Memory Allocator, Part 2

In part 1 of this series, we introduced new API functions, cudaMallocAsync and cudaFreeAsync, that enable memory allocation and deallocation to be... 9 MIN READ
Data Center / Cloud Jul 27, 2021

Using the NVIDIA CUDA Stream-Ordered Memory Allocator, Part 1

Most CUDA developers are familiar with the cudaMalloc and cudaFree API functions to allocate GPU accessible memory. However, there has long been an obstacle... 14 MIN READ