# Installing Julia on jetson nano is it worth it?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-on-jetson-nano-is-it-worth-it/64865>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** cuda\
**Created:** [July 18, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-on-jetson-nano-is-it-worth-it/64865 "2021-07-18T15:29:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![anon69491625](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@anon69491625](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon69491625)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-on-jetson-nano-is-it-worth-it/64865/1 "2021-07-18T15:29:40Z")

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I have a jetson nano and want to load up linux and add julia to work on cuda coding. I have read that I should NOT install the Julia binaries but to MAKE the julia environment and then it works perfectly. The issue I have is that the whole process will take 56 hours and that concerns me. I have two questions:

1 how long did it take you to install a julia development environment on a jetson 4gb nano?

2 what were the steps you followed to get that result?

thank you

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**Author:** ![contradict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@contradict](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/contradict)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 9:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-on-jetson-nano-is-it-worth-it/64865/2 "2021-07-18T21:45:39Z")

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I have not tried Julia on a Jetson Nano, but the official 1.6.2 arm64 binary works fine on a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB. I would try installing the arm64 binary and see what happens, I bet it just works.

The Pi has A72 cores which are the slightly newer but mostly identical upgrade to the A57 in the Jetson.

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**Author:** ![ianshmean](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ianshmean/32/216042_2.png) [@ianshmean](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ianshmean)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 10:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-on-jetson-nano-is-it-worth-it/64865/3 "2021-07-18T22:16:15Z")

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You can see SystemBenchmark results for the Jetson Xavier NX here

[https://github.com/IanButterworth/SystemBenchmark.jl/issues/8#issuecomment-626410322](https://github.com/IanButterworth/SystemBenchmark.jl/issues/8#issuecomment-626410322)

I had some earlier experience with the nano and precompilation time (before parallel precomp existed) was excruciatingly slow

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**Author:** ![anon69491625](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@anon69491625](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon69491625)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 10:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-on-jetson-nano-is-it-worth-it/64865/4 "2021-07-18T22:56:24Z")

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thanks @contradict GREAT idea! didn’t think about that. Worth a shot. Thanks so much.

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**Author:** ![anon69491625](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@anon69491625](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon69491625)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 10:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-on-jetson-nano-is-it-worth-it/64865/5 "2021-07-18T22:59:19Z")

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HI there @ianshmean  
great work on the benchmarks but the NX is out of my price range right now. I want to practice on the Nano first and then move up a notch if I get the hang of it. thanks so much for the benchmarks.

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**Author:** ![skypuppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@skypuppy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/skypuppy)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 12:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-on-jetson-nano-is-it-worth-it/64865/6 "2022-04-30T12:44:26Z")

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But the Jetsons have GPU’s, and the RPI’s do not.  
Which is why I want Julia running on the Jetsons so badly.