""" Vector Addition ================= In this tutorial, you will write a simple vector addition using Triton and learn about: - The basic programming model used by Triton - The `triton.jit` decorator, which constitutes the main entry point for writing Triton kernels. - The best practices for validating and benchmarking custom ops against native reference implementations """ # %% # Compute Kernel # -------------------------- import torch import triton.language as tl import triton @triton.jit def _add( X, # *Pointer* to first input vector Y, # *Pointer* to second input vector Z, # *Pointer* to output vector N, # Size of the vector **meta # Optional meta-parameters for the kernel ): pid = tl.program_id(0) # Create an offset for the blocks of pointers to be # processed by this program instance offsets = pid * meta['BLOCK'] + tl.arange(0, meta['BLOCK']) # Create a mask to guard memory operations against # out-of-bounds accesses mask = offsets < N # Load x x = tl.load(X + offsets, mask=mask) y = tl.load(Y + offsets, mask=mask) # Write back x + y z = x + y tl.store(Z + offsets, z) # %% # We can also declara a helper function that handles allocating the output vector # and enqueueing the kernel. def add(x, y): z = torch.empty_like(x) N = z.shape[0] # The SPMD launch grid denotes the number of kernel instances that should execute in parallel. # It is analogous to CUDA launch grids. It can be either Tuple[int], or Callable(metaparameters) -> Tuple[int] grid = lambda meta: (triton.cdiv(N, meta['BLOCK']), ) # NOTE: # - torch.tensor objects are implicitly converted to pointers to their first element. # - `triton.jit`'ed functions can be subscripted with a launch grid to obtain a callable GPU kernel # - don't forget to pass meta-parameters as keywords arguments _add[grid](x, y, z, N, BLOCK=1024) # We return a handle to z but, since `torch.cuda.synchronize()` hasn't been called, the kernel is still # running asynchronously. return z # %% # We can now use the above function to compute the sum of two `torch.tensor` objects and test our results: torch.manual_seed(0) size = 98432 x = torch.rand(size, device='cuda') y = torch.rand(size, device='cuda') za = x + y zb = add(x, y) print(za) print(zb) print(f'The maximum difference between torch and triton is ' f'{torch.max(torch.abs(za - zb))}') # %% # Seems like we're good to go! # %% # Benchmark # ----------- # We can now benchmark our custom op for vectors of increasing sizes to get a sense of how it does relative to PyTorch. # To make things easier, Triton has a set of built-in utilities that allow us to concisely plot the performance of our custom op. # for different problem sizes. @triton.testing.perf_report( triton.testing.Benchmark( x_names=['size'], # argument names to use as an x-axis for the plot x_vals=[2**i for i in range(12, 28, 1)], # different possible values for `x_name` x_log=True, # x axis is logarithmic line_arg='provider', # argument name whose value corresponds to a different line in the plot line_vals=['torch', 'triton'], # possible values for `line_arg` line_names=["Torch", "Triton"], # label name for the lines ylabel="GB/s", # label name for the y-axis plot_name="vector-add-performance", # name for the plot. Used also as a file name for saving the plot. args={} # values for function arguments not in `x_names` and `y_name` ) ) def benchmark(size, provider): x = torch.rand(size, device='cuda', dtype=torch.float32) y = torch.rand(size, device='cuda', dtype=torch.float32) if provider == 'torch': ms, min_ms, max_ms = triton.testing.do_bench(lambda: x + y) if provider == 'triton': ms, min_ms, max_ms = triton.testing.do_bench(lambda: add(x, y)) gbps = lambda ms: 12 * size / ms * 1e-6 return gbps(ms), gbps(max_ms), gbps(min_ms) # %% # We can now run the decorated function above. Pass `show_plots=True` to see the plots and/or # `save_path='/path/to/results/' to save them to disk along with raw CSV data benchmark.run(show_plots=True)