Originally published at: Speeding Up Data Decompression with nvCOMP and the NVIDIA Blackwell Decompression Engine | NVIDIA Technical Blog
Compression is a common technique to reduce storage costs and accelerate input/output transfer times across databases, data-center communications, high-performance computing, deep learning, and more. But decompressing that data often introduces latency and consumes valuable compute resources, slowing overall performance. To address these challenges, NVIDIA introduced the hardware Decompression Engine (DE) in the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture—and…
Hi, thanks for the blog. I would like to know which compression algorithms from nvCOMP are supported by the DE. I couldn’t find a detailed list of supported options anywhere.
I’m particularly curious whether formats such as Cascaded and GDeflate are also supported by the DE.
Hi! Currently the DE can be used for Deflate, GZIP, LZ4 and Snappy.
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