disk<-hostMem & hostMem<-deviceMem simultaneously?

wenshere · July 21, 2008, 4:49pm

is it possible to transfer disk data to host memory, and host memory data to device memory at the same time?

tmurray · July 21, 2008, 4:54pm

Sure, do an asynchronous memory copy first and then load from disk normally.

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