Build a Local Open-Weight Triton Kernel Latency and Memory Auditor
Benchmark custom open-weight attention and GEMM Triton kernels against baseline implementations on local GPUs. Quantify execution time, register pressure, and SRAM efficiency before serving deployment.
What you are building
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Benchmark custom open-weight attention and GEMM Triton kernels against baseline implementations on local GPUs. Quantify execution time, register pressure, and SRAM efficiency before serving deployment.
Hardware Kernel Optimization Engineer
Ingest profiling trace outputs from local Triton kernel compilation and execution benchmarks.
Extract kernel execution times, shared memory allocations, and register spill counts.
Compare candidate fused kernels against standard unquantized PyTorch baseline operations.
Use hosted Claude API to synthesize kernel tuning recommendations and block size heuristics.
Kernel benchmark comparator dashboard with memory footprint graphs and tuning report export.
Create normalized synthetic benchmark tables representing Triton attention kernel runs across varying tile sizes. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.
vLLM open-model serving Incorporate vLLM optimized attention and GEMM kernel execution references using Triton and CUTLASS.
mlflow, anthropic, pandas. mlflow tracks kernel benchmark metrics, artifacts, and parameter permutations across hardware runs. Hosted Claude API accessed over HTTPS for code commentary; kernel execution applies strictly to local open code.
Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.
Calculates percentage speedup or regression of candidate kernels over baseline operations.
Identifies register spilling into local memory that causes memory stall cycles.
Generates structured tuning recommendations for optimal tile and warp dimensions.
```json [ { "input": { "kernel_name": "fused_fp8_gemm", "block_m": 64, "block_n": 64, "registers_per_thread": 142, "spill_stores_bytes": 2048, "latency_us": 48.2, "baseline_us": 35.1 }, "expected_output": { "status": "REGRESSION", "spill_detected": true, "speedup_ratio": 0.73, "recommendation": "reduce_tile_size_to_32x64_to_relieve_register_pressure" } }, { "input": { "kernel_name": "fused_fp8_gemm", "block_m": 32, "block_n": 64, "registers_per_thread": 96, "spill_stores_bytes": 0, "latency_us": 22.4, "baseline_us": 35.1 }, "expected_output": { "status": "IMPROVED", "spill_detected": false, "speedup_ratio": 1.57, "recommendation": "adopt_configuration_for_production_profile" } } ] ```
Benchmarks open-source Triton code in isolated local user environments without accessing closed server systems. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.
Participation guide
Benchmarks open-source Triton code in isolated local user environments without accessing closed server systems. Use mock external writes and human review.
How work is evaluated
Calculates percentage speedup or regression of candidate kernels over baseline operations. Identifies register spilling into local memory that causes memory stall cycles. Generates structured tuning recommendations for optimal tile and warp dimensions.
Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.
Challenge datasets
Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.
How submissions are scored
These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.
Complete workflow
Ingest profiling trace outputs from local Triton kernel compilation and execution benchmarks. Extract kernel execution times, shared memory allocations, and register spill counts. Compare candidate fused kernels against standard unquantized PyTorch baseline operations. Use hosted Claude API to synthesize kernel tuning recommendations and block size heuristics.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Correctness and evidence
Calculates percentage speedup or regression of candidate kernels over baseline operations. Identifies register spilling into local memory that causes memory stall cycles. Generates structured tuning recommendations for optimal tile and warp dimensions.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Review interface
Kernel benchmark comparator dashboard with memory footprint graphs and tuning report export.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Safe execution
Benchmarks open-source Triton code in isolated local user environments without accessing closed server systems.
This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.
What you should walk away with
Ingest profiling trace outputs from local Triton kernel compilation and execution benchmarks.
Extract kernel execution times, shared memory allocations, and register spill counts.
Compare candidate fused kernels against standard unquantized PyTorch baseline operations.
Use hosted Claude API to synthesize kernel tuning recommendations and block size heuristics.
Reference links and supporting material
Create normalized synthetic benchmark tables representing Triton attention kernel runs across varying tile sizes. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.
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- Ingest profiling trace outputs from local Triton kernel compilation and execution benchmarks. Extract kerne...
- Calculates percentage speedup or regression of candidate kernels over baseline operations. Identifies regis...
- Kernel benchmark comparator dashboard with memory footprint graphs and tuning report export.
- 2 public reference cases
- 1 configured tool
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Configured tools
- MLflow · Optional
Evaluation contract
- Complete workflow · Weight 40
- Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
- Review interface · Weight 20
- Safe execution · Weight 10
Reference cases
- 2 public reference cases
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