From 529109083a7826719a7c33cb8c5344d9cfa60da9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maifee Ul Asad Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:23:13 +0600 Subject: [PATCH] docs: added GDS docs and deps documentation; --- README.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 4a5a17cda..87c708137 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -365,6 +365,12 @@ Use `--tls-keyfile key.pem --tls-certfile cert.pem` to enable TLS/SSL, the app w > Note: Windows users can use [alexisrolland/docker-openssl](https://github.com/alexisrolland/docker-openssl) or one of the [3rd party binary distributions](https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries) to run the command example above.

If you use a container, note that the volume mount `-v` can be a relative path so `... -v ".\:/openssl-certs" ...` would create the key & cert files in the current directory of your command prompt or powershell terminal. +## How to run heavy workflow on mid range GPU (NVIDIA)? + +Use the `--enable-gds` flag to activate NVIDIA [GPUDirect Storage](https://docs.nvidia.com/gpudirect-storage/) (GDS), which allows data to be transferred directly between SSDs and GPUs. This eliminates traditional CPU-mediated data paths, significantly reducing I/O latency and CPU overhead. System RAM will still be utilized for caching to further optimize performance, along with SSD. + +Requires: `cupy-cuda12x>=12.0.0`, `pynvml>=11.4.1`, `cudf>=23.0.0`, `numba>=0.57.0`, `nvidia-ml-py>=12.0.0`. + ## Support and dev channel [Discord](https://comfy.org/discord): Try the #help or #feedback channels.