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Add GPU MODE Cholesky sprint and fix header types
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| title: "GPU MODE: Cholesky Challenge" | ||
| numberOfPeople: "20" | ||
| pythonLevel: "Any" | ||
| contactPerson: | ||
| name: "Bryce Adelstein Lelbach" | ||
| email: "brycelelbach@gmail.com" | ||
| github: "brycelelbach" | ||
| twitter: "blelbach" | ||
| links: | ||
| - title: "Cholesky leaderboard" | ||
| url: "https://www.gpumode.com/leaderboard/776" | ||
| - title: "Cholesky problem and starter submission" | ||
| url: "https://github.com/gpu-mode/reference-kernels/tree/main/problems/linalg/cholesky_py" | ||
| - title: "Linear algebra competition announcement" | ||
| url: "https://www.gpumode.com/news/linear-algebra-kernels-age-of-research" | ||
| - title: "Popcorn CLI" | ||
| url: "https://github.com/gpu-mode/popcorn-cli" | ||
| - title: "GPU MODE Discord" | ||
| url: "https://discord.gg/gpumode" | ||
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| Come learn how to compete in a GPU MODE kernel contest by tackling the new | ||
| Cholesky problem together. The challenge is to factor batches of symmetric | ||
| positive-definite FP32 matrices on an NVIDIA B200. It runs through 30 July, so | ||
| we can put what we learn straight onto the live leaderboard. | ||
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| Every submission is a single Python file. You can begin with the working PyTorch | ||
| baseline, then optimize in Python with tools such as Triton or embedded CUDA. | ||
| The benchmark ranges from thousands of small matrices to one 32768-by-32768 | ||
| matrix, leaving room for many different ideas. Tests and benchmarks run on | ||
| hosted B200s, so you do not need a local GPU. | ||
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| Bryce from NVIDIA will help participants install and register the Popcorn CLI, | ||
| understand the problem, make a first correct submission, read benchmark and | ||
| profiling results, and choose an optimization to try. The goal is for every | ||
| newcomer to leave knowing the complete contest workflow; experienced GPU | ||
| programmers are welcome to team up and chase the leaderboard. | ||
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| Participants who want to use a coding agent can have Popcorn scaffold the | ||
| agent's contest workflow. Bryce will show how to give an agent a concrete | ||
| optimization goal, let it run the iterative edit-test-benchmark loop, inspect | ||
| its performance evidence, and keep numerically incorrect changes off the | ||
| leaderboard. Working directly by hand, pairing with another person, or bringing | ||
| your preferred coding agent are all equally welcome. | ||
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| NVIDIA will provide participants with a free sandbox VM and inference keys for | ||
| the purposes of the contest. | ||
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| No previous GPU-kernel or agent experience is required. Bring a laptop and a | ||
| GitHub or Discord account for authentication; basic Python familiarity will | ||
| help. | ||
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