Philippe Tillet

Philippe Tillet first began working with GPUs in 2011 as a contributor to the ViennaCL library. He then received his B.S. from Telecom SudParis (France) in 2012, his M.S. from NCTU (Taiwan) in 2014, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2020 with a dissertation on compilers for blocked algorithms on GPUs. He joined OpenAI full time in 2020 to pursue his work on the Triton compiler, a project he started in 2018 after being frustrated by the difficulty of writing auto-tuners for matrix multiplications in CUDA.
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Generative AI Feb 05, 2025

OpenAI Triton on NVIDIA Blackwell Boosts AI Performance and Programmability

Matrix multiplication and attention mechanisms are the computational backbone of modern AI workloads. While libraries like NVIDIA cuDNN provide highly optimized... 5 MIN READ