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According to this paper, GPU4FS is a file system that can run on the GPU and be accessed by applications. Since GPUs cannot make system calls, GPU4FS uses share
by west0n 3y ago
According to this paper, GPU4FS is a file system that can run on the GPU and be accessed by applications. Since GPUs cannot make system calls, GPU4FS uses shared video memory (VRAM) and a parallel queue implementation. Applications running on the GPU can utilize GPU4FS after modifying their code, eliminating the need for a CPU-side file system when accessing the file system. The experiments are done on Optane memory.
It would be interesting to know if this approach could optimize the performance of training and inference for large models.
- DemocracyFTW2 3y ago[flagged]
- rrix2 3y agoThen this isn't for them
- ShamelessC 3y agoHighly unlikely any non-technical folks ever learn about this, much less try to decipher what it does. Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding your comment? What do you mean exactly?
- halayli 3y agoThis sounds like projection.
- t-3 3y agoGPUs seem to have a lot of memory these days - from my limited knowledge, games and other graphics-intensive applications will use too much to make this approach particularly useful but do other applications have a similar level of utilization?