GPU-Resident Top-K for Agentic RAG: I Built a CUDA Kernel So My Retrieval Step Would Stop Bouncing Off the GPU
The PCIe transfer latency is silently bottlenecking your agentic inference. Here is how building a custom device-resident vector search kernel bypasses the CPU to unlock deterministic microsecond tail latencies. The post GPU-Resident Top-K for Agentic RAG: I Built a CUDA Kernel So My Retrieval Step

The PCIe transfer latency is silently bottlenecking your agentic inference. Here is how building a custom device-resident vector search kernel bypasses the CPU to unlock deterministic microsecond tail latencies. The post GPU-Resident Top-K for Agentic RAG: I Built a CUDA Kernel So My Retrieval Step Would Stop Bouncing Off the GPU appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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