Recently there has been more and more report about installation issues:
- Installing Triton before upgrading pytorch can create some issues because Triton uses some torch headers
- llvm-10-dev not available on some platform; llvm-11-dev not available on e.g. Ubuntu.
absence of nightly builds
This PR should fix all these issues. Some CMake tricks are used to download and install llvm at build time. Triton Python bindings were modified to remove dependence on pytorch ops. Midnight CI job added to generate binary wheels for all Triton version and update them on pypi's new triton-nightly project.
This PR will also make it very easy to use LLVM forks in the future for whatever needs we have.
Before this commit, the benchmarking infrastructure used heterogeneous protocols between library (e.g., CUTLASS uses a C++ binary that reports mean TFLOPS; torch and triton use python call and report 10th, 50th and 90th quantiles). For the sake of uniformity and fair benchmark practices, this PR adds a python wrapper for auto-tuned CUTLASS matrix multiplication. Benchmarks have been rewritten to use this wrapper with `triton.testing.do_bench` rather than system calls to CUTLASS profiler. Importantly, this also ensures that all the matmuls are done on the *same* input data which should stabilize clock across providers.
