Reverse-engineering Nvidia's CUDA-checkpoint for faster cold starts
A technical analysis explores the internal workings of NVIDIA's 'cuda-checkpoint' feature, which allows for the freezing and restoration of GPU states. The author investigates why the tool fails to saturate PCIe bandwidth and provides a code-based demonstration of the process.
Reverse-engineering NVIDIA's cuda-checkpoint for faster cold starts Fergus Finn Founder & Member of Technical Staff, Doubleword There’s a little known feature in the closed-source NVIDIA driver that lets you freeze a running CUDA process, serialize its GPU state into host memory, and later restore it to the GPU exactly as it was. We used it in an earlier post to speed up SGLang server startup by up to 70x.
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