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The Rust CUDA Project is a project aimed at making Rust a tier-1 language for extremely fast GPU computing
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provides a way to use Fortran/C/C++ code for GPU computing in tandem with CPU code with a single source. It also provides
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many libraries, tools, forums, and documentation to supplement the single-source CPU/GPU code.
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CUDA is exclusively an NVIDIA-only toolkit. Many tools have been proposed for cross-platform GPU computing such as
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CUDA is exclusively an NVIDIA-only toolkit. Many tools have been proposed for cross-platform GPU computing such as
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OpenCL, Vulkan Computing, and HIP. However, CUDA remains the most used toolkit for such tasks by far. This is why it is
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imperative to make Rust a viable option for use with the CUDA toolkit.
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of projects such as rust-gpu (for Rust -> SPIR-V).
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Our hope is that with this project we can push the Rust GPU computing industry forward and make Rust an excellent language
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for such tasks. Rust offers plenty of benefits such as `__restrict__` performance benefits for every kernel, An excellent module/crate system,
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for such tasks. Rust offers plenty of benefits such as `__restrict__` performance benefits for every kernel, An excellent module/crate system,
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delimiting of unsafe areas of CPU/GPU code with `unsafe`, high level wrappers to low level CUDA libraries, etc.
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## Structure
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The scope of the Rust CUDA Project is quite broad, it spans the entirety of the CUDA ecosystem, with libraries and tools to make it
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The scope of the Rust CUDA Project is quite broad, it spans the entirety of the CUDA ecosystem, with libraries and tools to make it
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usable using Rust. Therefore, the project contains many crates for all corners of the CUDA ecosystem.
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The current line-up of libraries is the following:
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- Generates highly optimized PTX code which can be loaded by the CUDA Driver API to execute on the GPU.
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- For the near future it will be CUDA-only, but it may be used to target amdgpu in the future.
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-`cuda_std` for GPU-side functions and utilities, such as thread index queries, memory allocation, warp intrinsics, etc.
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-*Not* a low level library, provides many utility functions to make it easier to write cleaner and more reliable GPU kernels.
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-_Not_ a low level library, provides many utility functions to make it easier to write cleaner and more reliable GPU kernels.
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- Closely tied to `rustc_codegen_nvvm` which exposes GPU features through it internally.
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-[`cudnn`](https://github.com/Rust-GPU/Rust-CUDA/tree/master/crates/cudnn) for a collection of GPU-accelerated primitives for deep neural networks.
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-`cust` for CPU-side CUDA features such as launching GPU kernels, GPU memory allocation, device queries, etc.
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## Related Projects
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Other projects related to using Rust on the GPU:
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- 2016: [glassful](https://github.com/kmcallister/glassful) Subset of Rust that compiles to GLSL.
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- 2017: [inspirv-rust](https://github.com/msiglreith/inspirv-rust) Experimental Rust MIR -> SPIR-V Compiler.
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- 2018: [nvptx](https://github.com/japaric-archived/nvptx) Rust to PTX compiler using the `nvptx` target for rustc (using the LLVM PTX backend).
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### Contribution
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Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
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