Decoupling Compute and Memory for Async GPUs

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Cool open-source project that introduces a new programming model for decoupling compute and memory for NVIDIA GPUs that supports asynchronous memory operations (e.g., Hopper). 12% perf improvement over SOTA and 67% less kernel code.

Paper: "VDCores: Resource Decoupled Programming and Execution for Asynchronous GPU" arXiv:2605.03190

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67% less kernel code is the more interesting number here — Hopper's async capabilities have been underutilized largely because the programming model is painful. Curious how it handles cases where compute and memory phases aren't cleanly separable.

This seems like a better version of CUDA, for Hopper GPUs?

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