Networking specialist HighPoint has launched its Rocket 7638D PCIe 5.0 switch card designed to enable direct interconnection between an Nvidia AI GPUs and NVMe storage devices, which could greatly reduce system lag when processing massive data sets. Right now, for data to be processed in the GPU requires retrieval from the storage device and processing by the CPU, because only the CPU can talk to storage. The GPU cannot. That is until Nvidia introduced the GPUDirect function in the Ampere gen...
