Rag

At FMS 2026 — the memory and storage industry’s annual conference, held in early August — NVIDIA announced it is open-sourcing the cuFile API and the storage stack beneath it into a neutral GitHub organization, XIO-SIG, with Google, Intel, and Meta as founding co-maintainers. It also formalized Storage-Next, a 40-plus-vendor coalition (Micron, KIOXIA, DDN among them), and designated SCADA — Scaled Accelerated Data Access, no relation to the industrial-control acronym — as the framework to build against. ...

I was stress-testing a RAG system built for regulated industries — financial services and life sciences. The grounding was fine. No hallucinations. What I found were subtler failures — the kind that only surface when analysts run the same query twice, compare citations across sessions, and need to explain to a regulator exactly which document an answer came from. In regulated environments, that’s the standard. And the system wasn’t meeting it. ...