Project Maya v1.0.30

AMD GPUs now set up on Windows too, Windows reads its experts from the SSD much faster, and Maya's logs and installer use its own name.

Update: the dashboard's About > Update, or git pull, then ./setup.sh (Windows: START-MAYA.bat). The engine recompiles; nothing is downloaded again.

What's new

• AMD on Windows, Strix Halo / Gorgon Halo included (experimental) (#69): START-MAYA.bat --backend hip sets Maya up on Windows 10/11 as ./maya.sh --backend hip does on Linux. That covers Ryzen AI Max 300 / 400 (Radeon 8050S / 8060S / 8065S) and the RX 7900 XT / XTX and RX 9070 / R9700.
  • Setup: finds the GPUs, uses AMD's HIP SDK (or offers AMD's ROCm SDK in .venv), and builds the engine with Visual Studio 2022 or 2026.
  • The engine: handles a Windows APU's memory and Windows' way of submitting GPU work.
  • Checked on a Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495: setup builds and packs Maya-L, every expert fits on the GPU, and all 15 HIP checks pass.
• Windows reads experts from the SSD much faster (#73 by @klvnblst):
  • The model files are unmapped after loading: while they stay mapped, Windows slows every direct read of them. On the RTX 5090 Laptop that reported it, decode is about 3.5x as fast.
  • CPUs without hyper-threading leave a third of their cores free for the disk readers.
• The CPU lane times itself on experts read from RAM (#70 by @merbanan): it used to time experts sitting in the CPU's cache and overrate the CPU. +6% decode on a Ryzen 9 7950X with a Tesla V100, and the same plan at every start.
• Maya's own name (#74): the logs say [maya] and maya ..., and the installer no longer shows Strata's name. Settings, flags and the API are unchanged, and the README keeps the credit.
• Windows setup in the README, step by step (#71 by @handmade0octopus): the prerequisites, copy-paste commands, and page-file advice that matches --check.
• Fix: a restart no longer mistakes the dashboard's saved settings for a model's config.

Checked

On 1x and 2x Tesla V100:

• the builds and parity tests, and identical greedy tokens with the CPU lane off;
• decode (writing the answer) and prefill (reading the prompt) the same within run-to-run variation;
• the server end to end, the setup screen in a real terminal, and the logs saying [maya].

Also: the engine compiles on Windows, AMD on Windows was run on the author's Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495, and the GitHub checks pass.