Swordfish Inference Kernel Released
AlpinDale · x · 2026-07-13
Introduces the Swordfish Kernel: a weight-only inference kernel designed for the Blackwell SM100 architecture. The author positions it as the successor to Marlin and Machete, aiming to maximize throughput on data center-grade Blackwell GPUs.
Two core results are highlighted:
- On the B200, performing INT4 inline dequantization achieves roughly 90% of cuBLAS BF16 performance.
- On Jetson Thor, it reaches approximately 95% of memory bandwidth utilization.
The author notes this is the result of their personal research into the Blackwell architecture, and both a related blog post and the source code have been made public.
Related event: Swordfish Inference Kernel for Blackwell Open Sourced(2 posts)→
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