tilegym 1.1.0

TileGym

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TileGym

TileGym is a CUDA Tile kernel library that provides a rich collection of kernel tutorials and examples for tile-based GPU programming.

Overview | Features | Installation | Quick Start | Contributing | License

Overview

This repository aims to provide helpful kernel tutorials and examples for tile-based GPU programming. TileGym is a playground for experimenting with CUDA Tile, where you can learn how to build efficient GPU kernels and explore their integration into real-world large language models such as Llama 3.1 and DeepSeek V2. Whether you're learning tile-based GPU programming or looking to optimize your LLM implementations, TileGym offers practical examples and comprehensive guidance.

Features

• Rich collection of CUDA Tile kernel examples
• Practical kernel implementations for common deep learning operators
• Performance benchmarking to evaluate kernel efficiency
• End-to-end integration examples with popular LLMs (Llama 3.1, DeepSeek V2)

Installation

Prerequisites

⚠️ Important: TileGym requires CUDA 13.1+ and NVIDIA Blackwell architecture GPUs (e.g., B200, RTX 5080, RTX 5090). We will support other GPU architectures in the future. Download CUDA from NVIDIA CUDA Downloads.

• PyTorch (version 2.9.1 or compatible)
• CUDA 13.1+ (Required - TileGym is built and tested exclusively on CUDA 13.1+)
• Triton (included with PyTorch installation)

Setup Steps

1. Prepare torch and triton environment

If you already have torch and triton, skip this step.

pip install --pre torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu130

We have verified that torch==2.9.1 works. You can also get triton packages when installing torch.

2. Install TileGym

git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/TileGym.git
cd TileGym

TileGym uses cuda-tile for GPU kernel programming, which depends on the tileiras compiler at runtime. Choose one of the following options depending on your environment:

• Option A — Bundled tileiras via pip (recommended for most users):

  pip install .[tileiras]
  

  This installs TileGym along with cuda-tile[tileiras], which bundles the tileiras compiler directly into your Python environment. No separate compiler installation is needed.

• Option B — System tileiras:

  pip install .
  

  Use this if you already have tileiras available on your system (e.g., from CUDA Toolkit 13.1+).

Then, install cuda-tile-experimental:

⚠️ Required: TileGym kernels use features from cuda-tile-experimental (e.g., the autotuner). This package is not available on PyPI and must be installed separately from source:

pip install "cuda-tile-experimental @ git+https://github.com/NVIDIA/cutile-python.git#subdirectory=experimental"

cuda-tile-experimental is maintained by the CUDA Tile team as a source-only experimental package. See more details in experimental-features-optional.

All runtime dependencies (except cuda-tile-experimental) are declared in requirements.txt and are installed automatically by pip install .. You can also pre-install them with pip install -r requirements.txt if you prefer an explicit step (this installs cuda-tile without the bundled tileiras compiler).

For editable (development) mode, use pip install -e . or pip install -e .[tileiras].

We also provide Dockerfile, you can refer to modeling/transformers/README.md.

Quick Start

There are three main ways to use TileGym:

1. Explore Kernel Examples

All kernel implementations are located in the src/tilegym/ops/ directory. You can test individual operations with minimal scripts. Function-level usage and minimal scripts for individual ops are documented in tests/ops/README.md

2. Run Benchmarks

Evaluate kernel performance with micro-benchmarks:

cd tests/benchmark
bash run_all.sh

Complete benchmark guide available in tests/benchmark/README.md

3. Run LLM Transformer Examples

Use TileGym kernels in end-to-end inference scenarios. We provide runnable scripts and instructions for transformer language models (e.g., Llama 3.1-8B) accelerated using TileGym kernels.

First, install the additional dependency:

pip install accelerate==1.13.0 --no-deps

Containerized Setup (Docker):

docker build -t tilegym-transformers -f modeling/transformers/Dockerfile .
docker run --gpus all -it tilegym-transformers bash

More details in modeling/transformers/README.md

4. Julia (cuTile.jl) Kernels (Optional)

TileGym also includes experimental cuTile.jl kernel implementations in Julia. These are self-contained in the julia/ directory and do not require the Python TileGym package.

Prerequisites: Julia 1.12+, CUDA 13.1, Blackwell GPU

# Install Julia (if not already installed)
curl -fsSL https://install.julialang.org | sh

# Install dependencies
julia --project=julia/ -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.instantiate()'

# Run tests
julia --project=julia/ julia/test/runtests.jl

See julia/Project.toml for the full dependency list.

Contributing

We welcome contributions of all kinds. Please read our CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines, including the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) process.

License and third-party notices

• Project license: MIT
  • LICENSE
• Third-party attributions and license texts:
  • LICENSES/ATTRIBUTIONS.md