On: Full-scale file system acceleration on GPU [pdf]

[dragontamer]

That's just called DirectStorage and was added as part of Windows 10 (erm.... some update in Windows 10).

The PS5 and Xbox both have GPU-access of NVMe Flash.

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So you are right. But what you are talking about happened like 5 years ago.

EDIT: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directstorage-develop...

Looks like 3 years ago for Win10. But I feel like I heard it sooner than that as NVidia or AMD specific API calls.