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.
kernels before synchronizing, the kernels are now enqueued one by one.
This makes it possible to clear the L2 cache before running the
workload, and also potentially collect some variance data for error bars
in plots
This PR adds an automatic memory alignment mechanism in the Triton runtime. Specifically, the JIT compiler detects the alignment (in bytes) of each pointer argument as well as the largest power of two divisor (between 1 and 16) of each integer argument. Proper .aligned and .multipleof attributes are then added to the Triton-IR on-the-fly for all auto-tunable kernels. There is a cache that remembers all the kernels compiled for each possible configuration.
This PR also includes substantial cleaning of the Python API. This adds 2-3us overhead, mostly due to accessing integer #defines from the auto-tuned compilation options. The previous solution was slightly faster but hacky and potentially unsafe, so this is preferred for now.
Improved handling of asynchronous copy, scheduling and synchronization for A100. Now achieving CUTLASS-like performance on large square dense matrix multiplication tasks
This adds a bench functionality to the setup.py that can be used to run the benchmark suite and generates a bunch of csv files (and optionally plots)
python setup.py bench
python setup.py bench --with-plots
python setup.py bench --filter=cross_entropy
