Hi guys, currently when using the Julia backend on Google Colab, I haven’t been able to get Reactant to find any Nvidia GPUs when I select a GPU runtime on Colab. E.g. when I select A100 or the L4 GPU, and then try to run: Reactant.set_default_backend(“gpu”) I get the following error: No GPU cli…

Ok, I just tested in Colab myself. You need to restart the session after that, and then it should work. My understanding is that Reactant comes preinstalled in the default environment, but they built it with a non-GPU runtime (either CPU-only, or CPU+TPU), so the default precompiled pkgimage is wi…

Issues with Reactant unable to find GPU on Colab, but CUDA.jl can

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giordano May 26, 2025, 9:51pm 2

Can you first follow Configuration | Reactant.jl and post the output here?

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