InSituANN: Billion-Scale Vector Search on Single GPU Without PCIe Bottlenecks
_reachsumit · x · 2026-08-11
InSituANN is an IVF-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) engine designed to solve memory bottlenecks in billion-scale vector retrieval for LLM and RAG workloads.
- Core Design: It keeps base vectors in host memory and performs fine search in situ on the CPU, using the GPU only for compact routing and optional pruning. This avoids the PCIe bottleneck caused by streaming high-dimensional vectors.
- Performance: On the SIFT-1B dataset, InSituANN builds the IVF index in just 5.2 minutes—about 350x faster than building an HNSW index. At matched recall, it improves end-to-end throughput by 104.9x to 4298x over the PCIe-bound Rummy baseline.
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