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Top Welcoming Open-Source Cuda Repositories

Top welcoming Cuda repositories. Scored by real 90-day external PR merge rates, maintainer review turnaround speed, and first-time contributor success.

Updated daily • Sat, 10 Oct 2026 UTC
Tracked Repos
29
>100 stars verified
Avg Merge Rate
38%
90-day external PRs
Open GFIs
3
Beginner friendly issues
Welcoming Tier
9
S & A Tier maintainers

Ranked Cuda Repositories

Showing top 29 of 29 ranked repositories

RankRepositoryTierScoreMerge RateGood First Issues
#1
mKernel: fast multi-node, multi-GPU fused kernels
A•Welcoming68.9100.0% -
#2
Graphics Processing Units Molecular Dynamics
A•Welcoming62.780.6% -
#3A•Welcoming62.171.8% -
#4A•Welcoming59.350.0%2
#5
GPU accelerated decision optimization
A•Welcoming59.151.8% -
#6
A plugin to use Nvidia GPU in PySCF package
A•Welcoming57.976.3% -
#7
cuGraph - RAPIDS Graph Analytics Library
A•Welcoming57.657.1% -
#8
cuVS - a library for vector search and clustering on the GPU
A•Welcoming57.433.3% -
#9
A high-performance, GPU-accelerated library for key computational chemistry tasks, such as molecular similarity, conformer generation, and geometry relaxation.
A•Welcoming56.579.4% -
#10
GPU Accelerated t-SNE for CUDA with Python bindings
B•Solid55.00.0% -
#11
A GPU-Accelerated First-Order LP Solver
B•Solid50.7100.0% -
#12
RAFT contains fundamental widely-used algorithms and primitives for machine learning and information retrieval. The algorithms are CUDA-accelerated and form building blocks for more easily writing high performance applications.
B•Solid50.150.0% -
#13
An efficient and research-friendly Gaussian Splatting framework described in the CVPR'26 paper "Faster-GS: Analyzing and Improving Gaussian Splatting Optimization"
B•Solid49.8100.0% -
#14
GPU-accelerated triangle mesh processing
B•Solid47.9100.0%1
#15
Tile primitives for speedy kernels
B•Solid46.760.0% -
#16
CUDA Library Samples
B•Solid45.233.3% -
#17
how to optimize some algorithm in cuda.
B•Solid45.250.0% -
#18
[MICRO'23, MLSys'22] TorchSparse: Efficient Training and Inference Framework for Sparse Convolution on GPUs.
D•Risky29.90.0% -
#19
RWKV-7 7.2B fp16 15000+ tps decoding @ single 5090
D•Risky18.90.0% -
#20
NCCL Tests
D•Risky13.50.0% -
#21
LLM training in simple, raw C/CUDA
D•Risky13.00.0% -
#22
This package contains the original 2012 AlexNet code.
D•Risky8.00.0% -
#23
Deformable ConvNets V2 (DCNv2) in PyTorch
D•Risky8.00.0% -
#24
[CVPR 2023 Highlight] Neural Kernel Surface Reconstruction
D•Risky8.00.0% -
#25
Instant neural graphics primitives: lightning fast NeRF and more
D•Risky7.50.0% -
#26
Mirage Persistent Kernel: Compiling LLMs into a MegaKernel
D•Risky7.50.0% -
#27D•Risky7.50.0% -
#28
Code from the "CUDA Crash Course" YouTube series by CoffeeBeforeArch
D•Risky7.50.0% -
#29
DeepGEMM: clean and efficient BLAS kernel library on GPU
D•Risky0.00.0% -

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Frequently Asked Questions: Cuda Open Source

What is the most welcoming Cuda open-source repository?

The highest-ranked Cuda repository on GetMerged is currently uccl-project/mKernel, with a C-Rank score of 68.9/100 and a 100.0% PR merge rate.

How can I find good first issues in Cuda?

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What makes a Cuda repository ‘Super Welcoming’ on GetMerged?

A ‘Super Welcoming’ (S-Tier) Cuda repository demonstrates an external PR merge rate above 80%, a median first response time within 24 to 48 hours, active review feedback, and clear onboarding documentation.