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Blake Holden

Senior Solutions Architect

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12x faster Elasticsearch vector indexing: deploying NVIDIA cuVS with GPU and CPU tiers
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May 19, 2026

12x faster Elasticsearch vector indexing: deploying NVIDIA cuVS with GPU and CPU tiers

Two patterns for deploying NVIDIA cuVS GPU-accelerated HNSW indexing in Elasticsearch: combined build-and-serve nodes for small clusters and a dedicated GPU ingest tier with ILM handoff to CPU for production at scale.

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By: Blake Holden

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