Software1 hOctober 21, 2026, 10:00

TornadoVM 7.3 brings GPU-native Java workloads via FFM API and CUDA

Open-source Java framework TornadoVM reached version 7.3, replacing JNI with the Foreign Function & Memory API and dropping the experimental JVMCI dependency. The release adds an optimized CUDA backend with cuTile, direct cuBLAS and CUTLASS calls, Apple MXL support and multi-GPU execution.

InfoQ

Open source

TornadoVM 7.3 brings GPU-native Java workloads via FFM API and CUDA

Backends moved from JNI to FFM API; JVMCI dependency removed
cuTile support and cuBLAS/CUTLASS calls from TaskGraphs
Multi-GPU execution added
jitLLM v2.0 inference engine ships as a single JAR

#TornadoVM#Nvidia#Java#JitLLM

jitLLM compiles Java bytecode straight to CUDA for LLM inference

Software

Java roundup: TornadoVM 7.0, Groovy 6.0, GraalVM, Quarkus, Maven 4.0

Software

MongoDB 9.0: up to 35% faster, substring search on encrypted data and Intelligent Workload Management

Software

TornadoVM 7.3 brings GPU-native Java workloads via FFM API and CUDA

jitLLM compiles Java bytecode straight to CUDA for LLM inference

Java roundup: TornadoVM 7.0, Groovy 6.0, GraalVM, Quarkus, Maven 4.0

MongoDB 9.0: up to 35% faster, substring search on encrypted data and Intelligent Workload Management

Stanford professor pushes Homa protocol to replace TCP for AI workloads