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Enrico Degregori 9565ca21ec [rocm-libraries] ROCm/rocm-libraries#5552 (commit 369c7a2)
[CK Tile] Eight Waves pipeline for MX GEMM (#5552)

## Motivation

Integrate Eight Waves pipeline in MX GEMM

## Technical Details

 - EightWaves pipeline:
- Add pipeline, policy and block gemm (internally using existing
implementation used by GEMM and ABQuant)
   - Extend support of EightWaves policy for FP4 (packed types)
 - Async pipeline:
- Fix pipeline with packed scales (requires MRepeat and NRepeat to be
contiguous)
- block gemm specific for MX GEMM is defined because distribution
encodings have changed
 - CShuffle:
- Add new functionality to support MRepeat and NRepeat contiguous
(defined by `TilesPacked`)
 - Examples:
- Refactor examples to easily switch different configurations (similar
to GEMM universal)
- Scales values generated consistently with other microscale
implementations in CK Tile
   - Add configuration for EightWaves pipeline
 - Tests:
   - Unify existing FP8 and FP4 tests
   - Add tests for EightWaves pipeline
- Scales values generated consistently with other microscale
implementations in CK Tile

Note: FP6 support for MX GEMM was added later and the support for the
Eight Waves pipeline will be done in following PR

## Test Plan

Add new pipeline to tests: `test_ck_tile_mx_gemm_async` for both FP4 and
FP8

## Submission Checklist

- [x] Look over the contributing guidelines at
https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md#pull-requests.
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CK Tile Example Suite

This directory contains a comprehensive suite of examples demonstrating the CK Tile programming model for high-performance GPU kernels. Each example illustrates a key deep learning or HPC operation, implemented using tile-based parallelism, modular pipelines, and data movement policy.


What is CK Tile?

CK Tile is a composable GPU programming API that expresses kernels as a composition of "tiles"—rectangular blocks of computation and data movement. The pipeline & policy orchestrates data movement (global <-> LDS <-> registers), computation, and synchronization, enabling high efficiency and flexibility.


Example Index

Example Operation Description
01_fmha Fused Multi-Head Attention Tile-based FMHA with masking, quantization, and epilogue fusion
02_layernorm2d LayerNorm2D Blockwise layer normalization with fusion and quantization
03_gemm GEMM Matrix multiplication with tilewise parallelism
04_img2col im2col Image-to-column transformation for GEMM-based convolution
05_reduce Reduction Tilewise sum, max, mean reductions
06_permute Permute Generic tensor permutation (up to rank-8)
09_topk_softmax TopK-Softmax Rowwise softmax and top-k selection for MoE gating
10_rmsnorm2d RMSNorm2D Root mean square normalization for LLMs
11_add_rmsnorm2d_rdquant Add + RMSNorm2D + RDQuant Fused add, RMSNorm, and rowwise dynamic quantization
12_smoothquant SmoothQuant Per-channel scaling and quantization for int8 inference
13_moe_sorting MoE Sorting Token-to-expert rearrangement for MoE dispatch
14_moe_smoothquant MoE-SmoothQuant Expert-dependent quantization fused with top-k selection
15_fused_moe Fused MoE End-to-end fused MoE block: sorting, group-GEMM, activation, weighting
16_batched_gemm Batched GEMM Parallel computation of multiple GEMMs
17_grouped_gemm Grouped GEMM Multiple independent GEMMs with different shapes
18_flatmm FLATMM Flattened matrix multiplication for packed layouts
19_gemm_multi_d Multi-D GEMM GEMM with multiple side inputs (bias, residual, etc.)
35_batched_transpose Batched Transpose NCHW <-> NHWC and other layout conversions
36_copy Copy Minimal example for tile-based memory movement
37_transpose Block Transpose High-performance tiled transpose for large tensors

Technical Highlights


How to Build & Run

mkdir build && cd build
sh ../script/cmake-ck-dev.sh ../ <arch>
make -j

Each example produces its own executable in build/bin/.


Learning and Extending


References


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