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.
Ranked Cuda Repositories
Showing top 29 of 29 ranked repositories
| Rank | Repository | Tier | Score | Merge Rate | Good First Issues |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | mKernel: fast multi-node, multi-GPU fused kernels | A•Welcoming | 68.9 | 100.0% | - |
| #2 | Graphics Processing Units Molecular Dynamics | A•Welcoming | 62.7 | 80.6% | - |
| #3 | A•Welcoming | 62.1 | 71.8% | - | |
| #4 | A•Welcoming | 59.3 | 50.0% | 2 | |
| #5 | NVIDIA/cuopt1,026 GPU accelerated decision optimization | A•Welcoming | 59.1 | 51.8% | - |
| #6 | A plugin to use Nvidia GPU in PySCF package | A•Welcoming | 57.9 | 76.3% | - |
| #7 | rapidsai/cugraph2,225 cuGraph - RAPIDS Graph Analytics Library | A•Welcoming | 57.6 | 57.1% | - |
| #8 | NVIDIA/cuvs838 cuVS - a library for vector search and clustering on the GPU | A•Welcoming | 57.4 | 33.3% | - |
| #9 | A high-performance, GPU-accelerated library for key computational chemistry tasks, such as molecular similarity, conformer generation, and geometry relaxation. | A•Welcoming | 56.5 | 79.4% | - |
| #10 | CannyLab/tsne-cuda1,958 GPU Accelerated t-SNE for CUDA with Python bindings | B•Solid | 55.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #11 | A GPU-Accelerated First-Order LP Solver | B•Solid | 50.7 | 100.0% | - |
| #12 | NVIDIA/raft1,036 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•Solid | 50.1 | 50.0% | - |
| #13 | An efficient and research-friendly Gaussian Splatting framework described in the CVPR'26 paper "Faster-GS: Analyzing and Improving Gaussian Splatting Optimization" | B•Solid | 49.8 | 100.0% | - |
| #14 | GPU-accelerated triangle mesh processing | B•Solid | 47.9 | 100.0% | 1 |
| #15 | Tile primitives for speedy kernels | B•Solid | 46.7 | 60.0% | - |
| #16 | CUDA Library Samples | B•Solid | 45.2 | 33.3% | - |
| #17 | how to optimize some algorithm in cuda. | B•Solid | 45.2 | 50.0% | - |
| #18 | [MICRO'23, MLSys'22] TorchSparse: Efficient Training and Inference Framework for Sparse Convolution on GPUs. | D•Risky | 29.9 | 0.0% | - |
| #19 | RWKV-7 7.2B fp16 15000+ tps decoding @ single 5090 | D•Risky | 18.9 | 0.0% | - |
| #20 | NVIDIA/nccl-tests1,639 NCCL Tests | D•Risky | 13.5 | 0.0% | - |
| #21 | karpathy/llm.c31,123 LLM training in simple, raw C/CUDA | D•Risky | 13.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #22 | This package contains the original 2012 AlexNet code. | D•Risky | 8.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #23 | Deformable ConvNets V2 (DCNv2) in PyTorch | D•Risky | 8.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #24 | [CVPR 2023 Highlight] Neural Kernel Surface Reconstruction | D•Risky | 8.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #25 | NVlabs/instant-ngp17,567 Instant neural graphics primitives: lightning fast NeRF and more | D•Risky | 7.5 | 0.0% | - |
| #26 | Mirage Persistent Kernel: Compiling LLMs into a MegaKernel | D•Risky | 7.5 | 0.0% | - |
| #27 | D•Risky | 7.5 | 0.0% | - | |
| #28 | Code from the "CUDA Crash Course" YouTube series by CoffeeBeforeArch | D•Risky | 7.5 | 0.0% | - |
| #29 | deepseek-ai/DeepGEMM8,895 DeepGEMM: clean and efficient BLAS kernel library on GPU | D•Risky | 0.0 | 0.0% | - |
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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.
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