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Why fused attention is only applicable on Ampere GPUs? #1279

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rayleizhu opened this issue Mar 5, 2023 · 1 comment

rayleizhu commented Mar 5, 2023

Hi, I'm writing my operator using fused attention as a template. However, I found that fused attention requires an Ampere arch:

https://github.com/openai/triton/blob/d376020f90002757eea3ea9475d4f7cfc2ec5ead/python/triton/ops/flash_attention.py#L200

I do not understand this.

Does it mean this template uses some arch-specific operators?
To use it on Volta GPU, how should I modify it?

Besides, it seems that only head_dim=64 is supported, right? How can I fix it for the head_dim=32 case?

https://github.com/openai/triton/blob/d376020f90002757eea3ea9475d4f7cfc2ec5ead/python/triton/ops/flash_attention.py#L207

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ptillet commented Mar 6, 2023 •

edited

there is some more information in #616

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