To digress and talk about DirectStorage, reading their documentation and announcements still leaves me with an unanswered question. Maybe someone knows the answer.

Does DirectStorage only work for games, or can one use it for compute workloads?

Context: I've been learning some basic GPU programming (via rust-gpu though, not CUDA), and one of the things that sound easy to implement are offloading compute kernels to the GPU (e.g. arrow-rs).

Being able to load datasets via DirectStorage could be great, but as I'm still really learning the basics, I can't figure out whether I could leverage this for my work/learning.