This PR adds a BF16 data-type, along with FP32 <-> BF16 conversion instructions in the LLVM codegen. Other kinds of ops on bfloat16 are not yet supported.
Improved codegen for the Ampere GPUs.
* Make the layout pass recognize the multistage pipelined pattern.
* Now the pipeline pass can automate the multistage pipelining transformation.
* Remove extra barriers (from the prefetch pass & WAR) on Ampere.
* Update the code generator (generator.cc) to make Triton generate n-buffered shared memory loads/stores.
This PR implements a major overhaul of the frontend for Triton, and replaces Triton-C by a pure Python API in which kernels are defined as @triton.jit decorated functions. The documentation and tutorials have also been updated to accommodate these changes.
See documentations for more information on the new API
Improved handling of asynchronous copy, scheduling and synchronization for A100. Now achieving CUTLASS-like performance on large square dense matrix multiplication tasks
* Simplified `triton.kernel` API to achieve lower latency:
> .data_ptr() must now be passed as kernel argument. No more implicit
conversion from torch.tensor
> compilation options are now constant attributes, i.e., opt.d('VAR')
becomes opt.VAR
> torch.device must now be passed explicitly to triton.kernel (no
longer inferred from torch.tensor arguments)
* C++ tests moved to `python/tests/`
* C++ tutorial created in `tutorials/`
* Python tutorial created in python/tutorials/
* Version changed to 1.0alpha
* No longer copying C++ headers into the Python package
* added python/triton/ops/ package for pre-written Triton ops
- A100 support via mma.16816
- Thread swizzling for conflict-free shared memory accesses without
padding
- Complete overhaul of the LLVM code generation in
codegen/selection/generator.cc to remove overengineering
- Added debugging capabilities in the Python binding
- Compilation error for kernels that spill
torch-blocksparse package:
* Now using warp shuffle in reductions when possible
* Various bugfixes in layout inference
* Added INFINITY, exponential and select
* Better error messages for unimplemented constructs
