Notes on research, systems and engineering.
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NVLink vs PCIe in Practice: Bandwidth and LLM Serving
Peer-to-peer and NCCL bandwidth measured on an RTX A6000 and an A100 server, and what NVLink and PCIe change when vLLM serves Qwen3.8-27B with tensor parallelism.
- /1512026-10-30
GPU Server Topology: NVLink, PCIe and NUMA
What NV#, PIX, PXB, PHB, NODE and SYS in nvidia-smi topo -m mean on the board of a two-socket GPU server, with two real machines.
- /1502026-10-29
ggml Q4_0 vec_dot Walkthrough
How ggml's CPU backend computes a Q4_0 matrix-vector product during decode, split across threads, with and without repacking.
- /1492026-10-24
KTransformers: CPU/GPU Hybrid Inference for MoE Models
How KTransformers (SOSP '25) runs the 671B DeepSeek-V3 on one GPU plus a dual-socket Xeon: AMX-aware CPU kernels, a single CUDA Graph for the whole decode step, NUMA-aware tensor parallelism, and Expert Deferral, which overlaps CPU and GPU by letting some experts arrive one layer late.
- /1482026-10-20
torch.compile Walkthrough
用 ((a + b) * c.relu()).sum(dim=-1) 跟踪 torch.compile 的每个阶段:Dynamo FX Graph、AOT ATen Graph、TorchInductor IR(TensorBox / StorageBox / Pointwise / Reduction / realize)、Scheduler 与生成的 kernel。
- /1472026-08-19
Qwen3.5 Dense Model Architecture
- /1462026-08-18
TileLang Programming Model
- /1452026-08-17
Production Ready TileLang Ops Framework
- /1442026-08-10
vLLM and torch.compile
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Piecewise CUDA Graph