Cutlass is a collection of C++ templates and Python interfaces for implementing high-performance linear algebra operations on NVIDIA GPUs. It provides a kernel composition framework for designing custom GPU kernels and a mixed-precision tensor library capable of executing operations across diverse data formats, ranging from 64-bit floating point to 4-bit integers.
The project features a toolkit for operator fusion that integrates activation functions and bias calculations directly into matrix multiplication kernels to reduce memory passes. It also includes a Python-based domain-specific language for defining high-performance GPU operations, which eliminates the need for C++ glue code.
The framework covers broader capabilities in GPU memory layout optimization, hierarchical tiling strategies, and the development of specialized CUDA kernels through modular software hierarchies.
