1) How does this work differ from Mark Silberstein's GPUfs from 2014 [1]?
Just quoting the paper:
Using GPUfs, Silberstein et al . [ 24] demonstrate that offering a library interface to CPU FS eases access to storage for GPU programmers, but
GPUfs only calls a CPU-side file system. GPU4FS offers a similar interface to GPUfs, but runs the file system on the
GPU.
Comments
Just quoting the paper:
Thanks for the quote!
In this case, it is indeed novel to run the logic of the filesystem on the GPU itself. It's definitely worth the investigation!