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Vortex

Open-source columnar file format with an extensible spec and separated logical and physical types, maintained under the Linux Foundation and used here to stream scans from S3 into GPU memory.

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Vortex streams 13 Gbit/s of columnar data from S3 into GPU memory without an NVMe hop

The figure comes from a conference demo scanning a 4K video, and the same talk sets a target closer to 50 Gbit/s. The reason today's loaders still stage shards on disk turns out to be PyTorch's worker model.

Publishers:infoq.com

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Evidence42
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+28
Incentives72

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Vortex — project — Clarity Today