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Serving LLMs on Tenstorrent Hardware: Inside the vLLM TT Plugin
vLLM · Tenstorrent Team · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- vLLM released a plugin enabling Tenstorrent accelerators to serve large language models through the standard OpenAI-compatible API.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers deploying inference on Tenstorrent hardware who want vLLM's serving interface without forking or maintaining custom code.
- Watch out
- Tenstorrent's mesh architecture forces phase-based scheduling with prefill-only or decode-only steps, not mixed batches like GPU backends support.
- llm
- serving
- vllm
- on-device
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