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Andriy Roshchenko d5c9215064 [rocm-libraries] ROCm/rocm-libraries#7359 (commit dd62f9f)
[CK_TILE][GFX1250] Enable MX GEMM FLATMM with ASYNC

## Motivation

Enables MX GEMM FLATMM pipeline on gfx1250. The pipeline uses an async
load instruction for tensor A, which complements the existing MX GEMM
FLATMM pipeline with TDM load. At this time, only FLATMM MX pipelines
are enabled on gfx1250.

## Technical Details

The existing gfx950 implementation was extended to support gfx1250
architecture. All three MX FP data types are supported across the two
ASICs.
It should be noted that while the TDM pipeline uses an emulated
32x32x128 warp-tile instruction, the present submission relies on the
built-in 16x16x128 instruction, called 4 times per warp.

## Test Plan

Existing `test/ck_tile/flatmm` tests were extended to cover new gfx1250
functionality.

To help facilitate the testing in development,
`example/ck_tile/18_flatmm/script/smoke_test_mx.sh` script was
introduced to verify various combinations of supported data types and
pipeline versions.

## Test Result

The present submission is expected to work on both gfx950 and gfx1250
hardware for all reasonable sizes and all MX FP8/FP6/FP4 data types.

## Submission Checklist

- [x] Look over the contributing guidelines at
https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md#pull-requests.
- [x] Relies on #6978 and should only be merged after the changes are
merged to the `develop`.
2026-05-29 17:02:45 +00:00
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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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