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by ananos 815 days ago
Hardware acceleration with unikernels could be tricky.

Including acceleration libraries & device drivers could severely impact the size and complexity of the resulting binary image. API remoting though could be something.

disclaimer: We're building a solution based on API remoting, and we have an example integration with Unikraft, the unikernel tech that kraftcloud is based on.

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Do you mean CUDA API hijacking?
not necessarily -- CUDA produces many function calls, which in API remoting setups could degrade performance -- in our case, we draw the abstraction line a bit "higher" in the stack so it's more like a "functional" API remoting -- eg. image classification
Gotcha, that makes sense.