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points by clusterhacks 4 days ago | 0 comments
...especially with megakernels...

I don't understand why megakernels haven't become the default choice. The speed advantage is crazy. I made a few changes to the openjet megakernel to run in a dual gpu (older gen, not blackwell) box and doubled my token generation speed on qwen3.8-27B (4-bit though).

I keep debating adding a third matching gpu to see if I can push the speed a bit more and move back to the 8-bit quant, but I'm stuck on the idea of just building a Blackwell gpu system despite the cost factor. Plus a third gpu is going to going to be weird for the tensor split and P2P data syncs and my workstation is old with 3rd gen PCIe etc etc.

[–] ActorNightly 4 days ago
Architectures (like Gemma4) have things like sliding window attention that make it pretty impractical to do on a GPU, you would have to do additional things to make it work, and the talent to do that, even with LLM assistance is very small.
[–] clusterhacks 4 days ago
Ah, that makes sense. I haven't bothered to look at current low-level NN architecture details. I'm a little surprised that there isn't a bumper crop of relatively well-informed talent to do gpgpu work. Although, when if I think about it, it has always been a little bit of a niche area.