diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index f511007e5278..3bf2c4ef6465 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -32,3 +32,6 @@
 [submodule "third_party/libxsmm"]
 	path = third_party/libxsmm
 	url = https://github.com/hfp/libxsmm.git
+[submodule "third_party/thrust"]
+	path = third_party/thrust
+	url = https://github.com/NVIDIA/thrust.git
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 74c33e6defec..af0998deb7ff 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ if(USE_CUDA)
     #   is fixed by https://github.com/NVIDIA/cub/commit/9143e47e048641aa0e6ddfd645bcd54ff1059939
     #   in 11.1.
     message(STATUS "Detected CUDA of version ${CUDA_VERSION}. Use external CUB/Thrust library.")
+    cuda_include_directories(BEFORE "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/third_party/thrust")
     cuda_include_directories(BEFORE "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/third_party/cub")
   endif()
 endif(USE_CUDA)
diff --git a/third_party/thrust b/third_party/thrust
new file mode 160000
index 000000000000..0ef5c509856e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/thrust
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 0ef5c509856e12cc408f0f00ed586b4c5b1a155c