Beyond GPUDirect: Moving Storage Control to the GPU New
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. ...