NVIDIA Unified Virtual Memory
NVIDIA Unified Virtual Memory (UVM): on-demand page migration, memory oversubscription, and simplified CPU-GPU memory management.
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NVIDIA Device Files in /dev/
How /dev/nvidia*, nvidiactl, nvidia-uvm, and DRI nodes map major/minor numbers to the driver, what CUDA opens first, and the minimum mount set for containers.
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NVIDIA Persistence Daemon: Killing GPU Cold Starts
Why the first nvidia-smi or CUDA open costs seconds, what that cold path rebuilds, how nvidia-persistenced holds device FDs on the host, and when persistence pays off for pods, CI, and batch jobs.
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How Docker Works with GPUs: Device Files, Bind Mounts, and Driver Stacks
Understand how containerized processes access GPU hardware through device files, bind mounts, and the NVIDIA container runtime. Learn the kernel driver vs user-space library distinction.
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nvidia-modeset: Kernel Mode-Setting for NVIDIA GPUs
Learn nvidia-modeset for display configuration on Linux. Understand kernel mode-setting, DRM integration, and GPU drivers.
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