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GPU-Resident Top-K for Agentic RAG: I Built a CUDA Kernel So My Retrieval Step Would Stop Bouncing Off the GPU

Friday, June 19, 2026Anubhab BanerjeeView original

The PCIe transfer latency is silently bottlenecking your agentic inference. Here is how building a custom device-resident vector search kernel bypasses the CPU to unlock deterministic microsecond tail latencies.

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