oxicuda-webgpu

Part of the OxiCUDA ecosystem — Pure Rust CUDA replacement for the COOLJAPAN ecosystem.

Overview

oxicuda-webgpu is the cross-platform GPU compute backend for OxiCUDA, targeting Vulkan, Metal, Direct3D 12, and the browser WebGPU API from a single Rust crate via wgpu. It implements the ComputeBackend trait from oxicuda-backend and provides a WebGpuBackend with a pooled buffer allocator and a WGSL shader generator for common kernels such as GEMM, element-wise ops, and reductions.

Features

Cross-platform — Single backend targets Vulkan (Linux/Windows), Metal (macOS/iOS), Direct3D 12 (Windows), and browser WebGPU via wgpu
WGSL shader generation — The shader module generates WGSL source strings at runtime for GEMM, element-wise, and reduction kernels
Buffer pool — WebGpuMemoryManager maintains a u64 handle → wgpu::Buffer map for efficient allocation and reuse
Backend abstraction — Implements oxicuda-backend's ComputeBackend for interoperability with the rest of the OxiCUDA ecosystem
Pure Rust — Zero C/Fortran in the default feature set; wgpu handles all native API calls

Architecture

WebGpuBackend  (implements ComputeBackend)
      │
  WebGpuDevice       ← wgpu Instance + Adapter + Device + Queue
      │
  WebGpuMemoryManager  ← buffer pool (u64 handle → wgpu::Buffer)

Usage

Add to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
oxicuda-webgpu = "0.1.3"

use oxicuda_webgpu::WebGpuBackend;
use oxicuda_backend::ComputeBackend;

let mut backend = WebGpuBackend::new();
backend.init().expect("WebGPU init failed");

// Allocate 1 KiB on the GPU
let ptr = backend.alloc(1024).expect("alloc failed");
backend.free(ptr).expect("free failed");

Status

Version: 0.1.3 (2026-04-17)
Tests: 91 passing