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CUDA-Oxide 0.2 Brings Early Improvements To Pure Rust CUDA Kernels

Written by Michael Larabel in NVIDIA on 5 June 2026 at 01:06 PM EDT. 1 Comment
Last month CUDA-Oxide was introduced as an experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler. From pure Rust programming language code, one can write CUDA GPU kernels in a "safe(ish)" manner with the CUDA-Oxide compiler emitting NVIDIA PTX output directly. Out today is the second update to CUDA-Oxide.

CUDA-Oxide 0.2 is the new version today and builds off their initial open-source code drop now with 37 pull requests from 23 contributors. This new version now makes it so a Rust GPU program is a single self-contained executable. There are also new capabilities added for making these Rust CUDA kernels more functional.

CUDA-Oxide 0.2 also brings improvements to ensure the kernels are more trustworthy, greater interoperability with CUDA Tile, and better upstream alignment with LLVM.

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Downloads and more details on today's CUDA-Oxide 0.2 release from NVIDIA can be found at GitHub.

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