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NVIDIA announced the launch of CUDA Rust, aimed at filling the gap in directly writing GPU kernels in Rust. The project consists of two open-source sub-projects: cuda-oxide and cutile-rs. Both utilize Rust’s ownership rules to reject alias errors during compilation. cuda-oxide is in the early Alpha stage, relying on the Nightly toolchain and requiring a specific Linux environment; cutile-rs has been published on crates.io and supports stable Rust 1.89+ versions, and is currently used by Hugging Face Grout and mistral.rs. NVIDIA recommends that developers use the Tile model for better performance, while the SIMT model is used for explicit thread control. Additionally, both projects support cross-language interoperability, without restricting developers from using C++ or Python.
NVIDIA 宣布推出 CUDA Rust，通过开源项目 cuda-oxide（SIMT 模型）和 cutile-rs（Tile 模型）填补 Rust 代码直接编写 GPU 内核的空白。这两个项目均利用 Rust 所有权规则在编译期拒绝别名错误：cuda-oxide 为早期 Alpha 阶段，依赖 Nightly 工具链并需特定 Linux 环境；cutile-rs 已发布至 crates.io，支持稳定版 Rust 1.89+，目前被 Hugging Face Grout 和 mistral.rs 使用。Rust 正成为从推理引擎到驱动系统的核心语言，NVIDIA 建议优先采用 Tile 模型以获得更优性能，SIMT 则用于显式线程控制。两者均支持跨语言互操作，不限制开发者使用 C++ 或 Python。