Official NVIDIA-authored guidance for NVIDIA cuDF GPU DataFrames, pandas acceleration, dask-cuDF, ETL, joins, groupby, CSV/Parquet I/O, nullable semantics, and multi-GPU DataFrame workloads.
nvidia-accelerated-computing-cudf/SKILL.md
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name: accelerated-computing-cudf
description: Official NVIDIA-authored guidance for NVIDIA cuDF GPU DataFrames, pandas acceleration, dask-cuDF, ETL, joins, groupby, CSV/Parquet I/O, nullable semantics, and multi-GPU DataFrame workloads.
license: CC-BY-4.0 AND Apache-2.0
metadata:
author: NVIDIA
tags:
- cudf
- dataframes
- pandas
- dask-cudf
- etl
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# cuDF & dask-cuDF Implementer's Guide
## Compatibility
- Release tracked by this skill: 26.04.
- Requires NVIDIA Volta or newer on CUDA 12, or Turing or newer on CUDA 13. Release 26.04 supports CUDA 12.2-12.9 with driver 535+ or CUDA 13.0-13.1 with driver 580+, and Python 3.11-3.14. cuDF sweet spot: >100K rows.
## Naming
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