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Canonical Announces Plans To Support NVIDIA CUDA, Easy Installation On Ubuntu


Canonical announced today that they will formally support the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit and also make it available via the Ubuntu repositories.

In the age of AI, Canonical is trying to make it super easy to run CUDA on Ubuntu Linux even though the user-space software is closed-source. Canonical announced moments ago on their blog:"Historically, developers would download the CUDA Toolkit directly from NVIDIA’s website. AMD for their part is also working to make it easier to deploy the ROCm compute stack on Ubuntu (and other Linux distributions) as well.

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