In Microsoft Direct3D, anything that uses memory is considered a resource: textures, vertex buffers, index buffers, render targets, constant buffers… 6 MIN READ

When I joined the RAPIDS team in 2018, NVIDIA CUDA device memory allocation was a performance problem. RAPIDS cuDF allocates and deallocates memory at high… 24 MIN READ

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

As AI and HPC datasets continue to increase in size, the time spent loading data for a given application begins to place a strain on the total application’s… 17 MIN READ

Many of today's applications process large volumes of data. While GPU architectures have very fast HBM or GDDR memory, they have limited capacity. 18 MIN READ

For more recent info on NVLink, check out the post, "How NVLink Will Enable Faster, Easier Multi-GPU Computing". NVIDIA GPU accelerators have emerged in High… 5 MIN READ