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Pro Frontier8.0 Hours•Level: Frontier•Updated: October 2026

High-Throughput LLM Serving & Custom Triton GPU Kernels

Break through the memory bandwidth wall. Understand NVIDIA GPU architecture (SMs, warps, tensor cores), write fused Triton kernels, and tune multi-GPU clusters running vLLM and TensorRT-LLM.

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Curriculum Outcomes & Engineering Deliverables

Profile GPU bottlenecks using NVIDIA Nsight Compute and Roofline models
Write custom Triton kernels with on-chip SRAM tile caching
Deconstruct FlashAttention-2 & FlashAttention-3 online softmax algorithms
Optimize multi-GPU Tensor Parallelism and Continuous Batching clusters

Included Engineering Deliverables

Custom fused RoPE + GeLU Triton kernel implementation
FlashAttention-3 online softmax tile-based forward kernel
NCU (Nsight Compute) roofline profiling and memory coalescing harness
Megatron-LM style Tensor Parallel column/row linear layers

Curriculum Modules

3 Modules • 5 Lessons
Module 012 Lessons

GPU Hardware Architecture for LLMs

Understanding the silicon: Streaming Multiprocessors, Warps & HBM.

Module 022 Lessons

Custom Triton GPU Kernels

Write hardware-accelerated kernels in Python without raw CUDA boilerplate.

Module 031 Lessons

Cluster Scale Serving & Parallelism

Scaling inference across multi-node GPU clusters.

Hardware & GPU Compute

Baseline GPUNVIDIA Ada Lovelace (RTX 4090), Ampere (A100), or Hopper (H100)
VRAM Requirement24GB - 80GB VRAM
Recommended Configuration1x NVIDIA H100 80GB SXM5 (via Lambda / RunPod template)

Prerequisites & Tech Stack

Stack Components
OpenAI Triton 3.0CUDA 12.4Nsight Compute (NCU)PyTorch C++TensorRT-LLM
Knowledge Prerequisites
  • C/C++ or PyTorch internal familiarity
  • Basic GPU computing concept
  • LLM Foundations