COMPILING LLMS INTO A MEGAKERNEL: A PATH TO LOW-LATENCY INFERENCE

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Traditional large language model (LLM) systems often rely on sequences of GPU kernel launches and external communications calls, which results in underutilized hardware. This post discusses how a team created a compiler that automatically transforms LLM inference into a single megakernel, which eliminates launch overhead, enables fine-grained software pipelining, and overlaps computation with communication across GPUs. The end-to-end GPU fusion approach reduces LLM inference latency by 1.2 to 6.7 times.