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Structured Mojo Kernels Part 4 - Portability and the Road Ahead

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Fabio Riccardi
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Structured Mojo Kernels offer a novel approach to GPU kernel development by emphasizing portability and progressive specialization, allowing them to perform efficiently across different hardware platforms without rewriting kernel logic. Unlike traditional methods that rely on C++ template specialization, resulting in complex and lengthy codebases like CUTLASS, Structured Mojo Kernels utilize a compositional architecture with small, clean components that offer platform-agnostic logic. This architecture enables developers to swap platform-specific implementations through well-defined interfaces, leading to significant code reduction and maintenance ease without performance compromises. The approach has demonstrated substantial efficiency, as seen in operations like conv2d and block-scaled matmul, and is poised to extend further into areas like warp-specialized kernels and automated scheduling, thus forming a robust foundation for future high-performance computing across diverse hardware.

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