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Gluon: a GPU programming language based on the same compiler stack as Triton

Gluon: a GPU programming language based on the same compiler stack as Triton

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·September 17, 2025
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lukax

Is this Triton's reply to NVIDIA's tilus[1]. Tilus is suposed to be lower level (e.g. you have control over registers). NVIDIA really does not want the CUDA ecosystem to move to Triton as Triton also supports AMD and other accelerators. So with Gluon you get access to lower level features and you can stay within Triton ecosystem.

[1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/tilus

mdaniel

Also it REALLY jams me up that this is a thing, complicating discussions: https://github.com/triton-inference-server/server

ronsor

The fact that the "language" is still Python code which has to be traced in some way is a bit off-putting. It feels a bit hacky. I'd rather a separate compiler, honestly.

derbOac

Yeah that struck me as odd. It's more like a Python library or something.