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hazyresearch.stanford.edu26 min read

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These authors, from Stanford University, focused on optimizing AI's compute usage and developed ThunderKittens, a DSL embedded in CUDA, to write efficient kernels. ThunderKittens simplifies the process of utilizing hardware features like the Tensor Memory Accelerator (TMA) and warp group matrix multiply accumulate (WGMMA) instructions, leading to significant performance improvements in Flash Attention and Based linear attention kernels.