NVIDIA open-sourced cuFile and introduced SCADA so GPUs pull only the bytes they need.

Announced at FMS, the cuFile APIs let GPUs read and write storage directly in microseconds rather than routing through CPUs, and SCADA (scaled, accelerated data access) lets massively parallel GPUs pull only application-necessary data into high-bandwidth memory. NVIDIA also showed the Vera CPU in the Vera BlueField-4 STX storage processor delivering up to 3.21x higher throughput than an x86 CPU on a two-stage compression-and-encryption pipeline. 40+ storage and flash vendors are in the Storage-Next initiative. The driver: KV-cache and long-context working sets outgrowing system memory.