# Julia on Google Colab: Free GPU-Accelerated Shareable Notebooks

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-on-google-colab-free-gpu-accelerated-shareable-notebooks/15319>\
**Category:** GPU\
**Tags:** announcement, notebooks\
**Created:** [September 21, 2018, 11:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-on-google-colab-free-gpu-accelerated-shareable-notebooks/15319 "2018-09-21T23:00:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 7:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-on-google-colab-free-gpu-accelerated-shareable-notebooks/15319/30 "2019-11-18T07:03:18Z")

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@ninjin Two suggestions for the notebook template: maybe use Julia 1.1 or 1.2, since 1.0 has a bug that displays a nasty (but harmless) stacktrace when importing CuArrays. You also should do `@benchmark CuArrays.@sync ...` or you’re just measuring kernel launch time.

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