vLLM reports GB200 forward-pass gains from Inferact kernels in microbenchmarks
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vLLM says Inferact's fused all-reduce plus norm, packed QKV and tanh softcap kernels cut GB200 forward time from 4.23 to 3.89 ms at TP4 batch 1, and from 8.15 to 6.47 ms at TP8 batch 128.
The figures come from forward microbenchmarks run with dummy weights, not from end-to-end serving tests, so they do not show serving throughput or latency.
A second vLLM post repeats the same figures and the same caveat.
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vLLM@vllm_projectOfficialInferact's kernel work cuts GB200 forward times in microbenchmarksAIInferact's fused all-reduce plus norm, packed QKV, and tanh softcap kernels cut GB200 forward microbenchmark times, per vLLM. TP4 batch 1 fell from 4.23 ms to 3.89 ms, and TP8 batch 128 from 8.15 ms to 6.47 ms. The benchmarks used dummy weights and measured forward passes, not end-to-end serving.

vLLM@vllm_projectOfficialvLLM shares GB200 forward microbenchmark gains from Inferact's kernel workAIvLLM says Inferact's fused all-reduce plus norm, packed QKV paths, and tanh softcap kernel cut GB200 forward time from 4.23 to 3.89 ms at TP4 batch 1, and from 8.15 to 6.47 ms at TP8 batch 128. The figures come from forward microbenchmarks with dummy weights, not end-to-end serving results.

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