hive-gpu 0.2.0

High-performance GPU acceleration for vector operations with Device Info API (Metal, CUDA, ROCm)
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# CUDA Backend Analysis — Index

**Date:** 2026-04-19
**Analyzed version:** `hive-gpu 0.1.10`
**Scope:** Current state of the CUDA backend, gaps versus the Metal reference backend, and modernization plan.

## Documents

1. [Executive Summary]01-executive-summary.md
2. [Current State of the Code]02-current-state.md
3. [Gap Analysis vs. Requirements]03-gap-analysis.md
4. [Architectural Decisions]04-architecture-decisions.md
5. [Implementation Plan]05-implementation-plan.md
6. [Risks and Mitigations]06-risks-and-mitigations.md
7. [Impact on the Rest of the Project]07-project-impact.md
8. [Next Immediate Steps]08-next-steps.md

## At a Glance

- **Maturity:** Stub (≈5% complete). Compiles nothing GPU-related, returns `"not implemented yet"` on almost every path.
- **Feature flag `cuda` in [Cargo.toml:39]../../../Cargo.toml#L39** is empty — `cudarc` is commented out.
- **Estimated effort** for functional parity with Metal: **15–20 dev-days**, plus 7 days if HNSW is required in v1.
- **Recommended binding:** [`cudarc`]https://crates.io/crates/cudarc (pure-Rust, driver API).
- **Kernel strategy:** embedded PTX (offline-compiled with `nvcc`) in v1; `build.rs` multi-SM in v2.