Contents

• 1. NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage Benchmarking and Configuration Guide
• 2. Introduction
• 3. About this Guide
• 4. Benchmarking GPUDirect Storage
  • 4.1. Determining PCIe Device Affinity
  • 4.2. GPUDirect Storage Configuration Parameters
    • 4.2.1. System Parameters
    • 4.2.2. GPUDirect Storage Parameters
  • 4.3. GPUDirect Storage Benchmarking Tools
    • 4.3.1. gdsio Utility
    • 4.3.2. gds-stats Tool
• 5. GPUDirect Storage Benchmarking on Direct Attached Storage
  • 5.1. GPUDirect Storage Performance on DGX-2 System
  • 5.2. GPUDirect Storage Performance on a DGX A100 System
• 6. GPUDirect Storage Benchmarking on Network Attached Storage
  • 6.1. GPUDirect Storage Benchmarking on NFS
• 7. Summary
• 8. Benchmarking and Performance
  • 8.1. The Language of Performance
  • 8.2. Benchmarking Storage Performance
• 9. Notice
• 10. OpenCL
• 11. Trademarks