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CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler

cuda-oxide is an experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler that lets you write (SIMT) GPU kernels in safe(ish), idiomatic Rust. It compiles standard Rust code directly to PTX — no DSLs, no foreign language bindings, just Rust. This book assumes familiarity with the Rust programming language, including ownership, traits, and generics. Later chapters on async GPU programming also assume working knowledge of async / .await and runtimes like tokio. For a refresher, see The Rust Programming Language , Rust by Example , or the Async Book . The v0.1.0 release is an early-stage alpha: expect bugs, incomplete features, and API breakage as we work to improve it. We hope you’ll try it and help shape its direction by sharing feedback on your experience. Build and run with cargo oxide run vecadd upon installing the prerequisites . #[cuda_module] embeds the generated device artifact into the host binary and generates a typed kernels::load function plus one launch method per kernel. The lower-level load_kernel_module and cuda_launch! APIs remain available when you need to load a specific sidecar artifact or build custom launch code. Write GPU kernels with Rust’s type system and ownership model. Safety is a first-class goal, but GPUs have subtleties — read about the safety model . Not a DSL. A custom rustc codegen backend that compiles pure Rust to PTX. Compose GPU work as lazy DeviceOperation graphs. Schedule across stream pools. Await results with .await .