read/write operations from disk from GPU/device arrays ?

[mkandulavm]

Hi

I have a question or a feature request evaluation. Consider we have a text file / json that can be read into a array of a structure.

Is there a way to read/write from this file directly into/from GPU arrays ? Is this a viable request ? If this is possible, Can Kompute be developed to handle such a functionality ?

What I am asking is the ability to handle FILE IO using parallel operations into GPU/device arrays.

Kindly provide feedback.

[axsaucedo]

I'm not sure I fully understand the usecase, if what you mean is to load the contents of a file and load it into GPU memory, however I would assume the contents of the file would include contents that could be mapped into a respective array, so this would require parsing into an int / float array, and then a kp::Tensor can be created with that data, which can then be copied into GPU memory. Does that make sense?

[mkandulavm]

Ya. Sorry for not giving full details. Based on what you say, I still need CPU to load from disk to RAM before it can put to GPU array.

Either ways, thank you for the response. I will try some variations at my end and ask more relevant question.