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### What this PR does / why we need it? Add vLLM Ascend Weekly meeting link ### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change? No ### How was this patch tested? Preview Signed-off-by: Yikun Jiang <yikunkero@gmail.com>
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vLLM Ascend Plugin
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| <a href="https://www.hiascend.com/en/"><b>About Ascend</b></a> | <a href="https://vllm-ascend.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"><b>Documentation</b></a> | <a href="https://slack.vllm.ai"><b>#sig-ascend</b></a> | <a href="https://discuss.vllm.ai/c/hardware-support/vllm-ascend-support"><b>Users Forum</b></a> | <a href="https://tinyurl.com/vllm-ascend-meeting"><b>Weekly Meeting</b></a> |
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<a ><b>English</b></a> | <a href="README.zh.md"><b>中文</b></a>
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---
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*Latest News* 🔥
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- [2025/03] We hosted the [vLLM Beijing Meetup](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/VtxO9WXa5fC-mKqlxNUJUQ) with vLLM team! Please find the meetup slides [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Pid6NSFLU43DZRi0EaTcPgXsAzDvbBqF).
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- [2025/02] vLLM community officially created [vllm-project/vllm-ascend](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend) repo for running vLLM seamlessly on the Ascend NPU.
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- [2024/12] We are working with the vLLM community to support [[RFC]: Hardware pluggable](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/11162).
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---
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## Overview
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vLLM Ascend (`vllm-ascend`) is a community maintained hardware plugin for running vLLM seamlessly on the Ascend NPU.
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It is the recommended approach for supporting the Ascend backend within the vLLM community. It adheres to the principles outlined in the [[RFC]: Hardware pluggable](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/11162), providing a hardware-pluggable interface that decouples the integration of the Ascend NPU with vLLM.
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By using vLLM Ascend plugin, popular open-source models, including Transformer-like, Mixture-of-Expert, Embedding, Multi-modal LLMs can run seamlessly on the Ascend NPU.
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## Prerequisites
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- Hardware: Atlas 800I A2 Inference series, Atlas A2 Training series
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- OS: Linux
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- Software:
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* Python >= 3.9
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* CANN >= 8.0.0
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* PyTorch >= 2.5.1, torch-npu >= 2.5.1.dev20250320
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* vLLM (the same version as vllm-ascend)
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## Getting Started
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Please refer to [QuickStart](https://vllm-ascend.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quick_start.html) and [Installation](https://vllm-ascend.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html) for more details.
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## Contributing
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See [CONTRIBUTING](https://vllm-ascend.readthedocs.io/en/main/developer_guide/contributing.html) for more details, which is a step-by-step guide to help you set up development environment, build and test.
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We welcome and value any contributions and collaborations:
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- Please let us know if you encounter a bug by [filing an issue](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues)
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- Please use [User forum](https://discuss.vllm.ai/c/hardware-support/vllm-ascend-support) for usage questions and help.
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## Branch
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vllm-ascend has main branch and dev branch.
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- **main**: main branch，corresponds to the vLLM main branch, and is continuously monitored for quality through Ascend CI.
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- **vX.Y.Z-dev**: development branch, created with part of new releases of vLLM. For example, `v0.7.3-dev` is the dev branch for vLLM `v0.7.3` version.
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Below is maintained branches:
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| Branch | Status | Note |
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| main | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM main branch |
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| v0.7.1-dev | Unmaintained | Only doc fixed is allowed |
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| v0.7.3-dev | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM 0.7.3 version |
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Please refer to [Versioning policy](https://vllm-ascend.readthedocs.io/en/main/developer_guide/versioning_policy.html) for more details.
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## Weekly Meeting
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- vLLM Ascend Weekly Meeting: https://tinyurl.com/vllm-ascend-meeting
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- Wednesday, 15:00 - 16:00 (UTC+8, [Convert to your timezone](https://dateful.com/convert/gmt8?t=15))
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## License
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Apache License 2.0, as found in the [LICENSE](./LICENSE) file.
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