Morning Edition · Thursday, September 17, 2026Published at 2:17 AM EDT · New York

Nvidia Brings CUDA Kernel Programming to Rust With Two Separate Toolchains

The tile-based crate already runs on stable Rust and ships inside Hugging Face's Grout inference engine, while the lower-level single instruction, multiple threads (SIMT) compiler backend remains in early alpha.

Nvidia released CUDA Rust, an official path for writing graphics processing unit (GPU) kernels in Rust, and split it into two toolchains with different maturity levels. The cuda-oxide track follows the traditional SIMT model familiar from C…