Nvidia has open-sourced its cuFile storage stack, with Google, Intel and Meta joining as founding maintainers under the new Accelerated IO Special Interest Group (SIG) on GitHub, aiming to establish an open standard for GPU-native storage. The release includes the cuFile APIs and complete software stack, shifting the technology from proprietary to community-driven. Central to the release is SCADA (Scaled Accelerated Data Access), a framework that moves storage control directly onto the GPU, allowing GPUs to generate requests and process completions themselves, keeping hundreds of thousands of operations in flight while reducing storage latency to microseconds. The technology builds on GPUDirect Storage, introduced in 2021, and open-sourcing cuFile strengthens Linux interoperability and security by using standard Linux privilege mechanisms. Micron demonstrated the technology on a single server equipped with 44 Gen6 SSDs, three PCIe switches and three Nvidia H100 GPUs, achieving 230 million random 512-byte reads per second—around 95% of the drives’ rated performance—while the CPU remained essentially idle. Nvidia also launched Storage-Next, an ecosystem initiative involving more than 40 companies, including DDN, Kioxia and Micron, to advance open GPU-native storage technologies. Jason Hardy, Vice President of Storage Technology at Nvidia, said, “The result is data pulled from storage in microseconds.”