Vortex: Overcoming Memory Capacity Limitations in GPU-Accelerated Large-Scale Data Analytics

Summary: Vortex routes a target GPU's IO through peer GPUs' PCIe links in multi‑GPU systems to overcome GPU memory limits without caching, leveraging idle IO on compute‑bound GPUs. It separates kernel code from IO scheduling, uses zero‑copy late materialization, and yields ~5.7x vs Proteus and 2.5x price‑performance vs DuckDB. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13794
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.0571108e-05
Overall Rank: 6,453 | 55.11%
DOI: 10.14778/3717755.3717780

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