Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA

yu3zhou4•about 23 hours ago

README is in my opinion (author here) the most interesting - I wrote it to help others build useful mental model to be able to recreate the project yourself, without need to even read my code

lukemerrick•about 4 hours ago

I am not super familiar with C and CUDA, so I read solely for the README and enjoyed it supremely. The blend of cheerful walking through instructive examples and your philosophical takes on how to approach the exercise to get the most out of it put me in a great mood. You captured that special upbeat attitude that comes about when you're doing something as well as you can just because it's so legitimately interesting to you.

janalsncm•about 18 hours ago

Really practical teaching approach. I clicked in to see how safetensors are loaded and just kept reading. Thanks for sharing.

tom-wal•about 11 hours ago

I feel like I learned twice as much in 10 minutes reading this than I did reading LLM for Dummies. Thank you

xuanlin314•about 17 hours ago

The lesson-style README is a great approach. Breaking down LLM inference into digestible steps makes the codebase approachable even for people who haven't touched CUDA before.

dwa3592•about 21 hours ago

Very nice job on read me.

>>Physically, LLM is a file which contains a lot of float numbers.

aka atoms of the LLM.

cyanydeez•about 21 hours ago

the universe is just atomic if statments

nullpoint420•about 12 hours ago

it from bit

GoldenJade•about 17 hours ago

Thanks for sharing this. As someone currently researching LLMs, I'm sure I'll be referencing this quite a bit going forward.

juancn•about 22 hours ago

Looks interesting, it reminds me of the first llama.cpp, but better documented.

nazgulsenpai•about 23 hours ago

I love the documentation formatted in lessons. I can't wait to read through it.

cookiengineer•about 21 hours ago

Wanted to add that the author has an amazing blog with lots of interesting papers: https://jedrzej.maczan.pl/

smy_smy•about 3 hours ago

interesting!

sylware•about 10 hours ago

I am looking at a plain and simple C implemented LLM inference, and/or x86_64 assembly implemented, and/or AMD GPU RDNA assembly.

Anybody?

irishcoffee•about 6 hours ago

I heard once that c++ can become assembly at some point if you type the right things in. :)

einpoklum•about 21 hours ago

It seems the author believes checking the return values of CUDA API calls is not "tiny" enough :-(

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