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Mar 1, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

How to Build a High‑Performance, Scalable LLM Inference Engine: From Paged Attention to Multi‑GPU Parallelism

This article analyzes the challenges of deploying large language models locally and presents a comprehensive set of engineering techniques—including CPU/GPU process separation, Paged Attention, Radix Attention, chunked prefill, output‑length reduction, multi‑GPU tensor parallelism, and speculative decoding—to dramatically boost inference throughput and cut response latency.