llama.cpp for SYCL

Background
OS
Intel GPU
Docker
Linux
Windows
Environment Variable
Known Issue
Q&A
Todo

Background

SYCL is a higher-level programming model to improve programming productivity on various hardware accelerators—such as CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs. It is a single-source embedded domain-specific language based on pure C++17.

oneAPI is a specification that is open and standards-based, supporting multiple architecture types including but not limited to GPU, CPU, and FPGA. The spec has both direct programming and API-based programming paradigms.

Intel uses the SYCL as direct programming language to support CPU, GPUs and FPGAs.

To avoid to re-invent the wheel, this code refer other code paths in llama.cpp (like OpenBLAS, cuBLAS, CLBlast). We use a open-source tool SYCLomatic (Commercial release Intel® DPC++ Compatibility Tool) migrate to SYCL.

The llama.cpp for SYCL is used to support Intel GPUs.

For Intel CPU, recommend to use llama.cpp for X86 (Intel MKL building).

OS

OS	Status	Verified
Linux	Support	Ubuntu 22.04, Fedora Silverblue 39
Windows	Support	Windows 11

Intel GPU

Verified

Intel GPU	Status	Verified Model
Intel Data Center Max Series	Support	Max 1550
Intel Data Center Flex Series	Support	Flex 170
Intel Arc Series	Support	Arc 770, 730M
Intel built-in Arc GPU	Support	built-in Arc GPU in Meteor Lake
Intel iGPU	Support	iGPU in i5-1250P, i7-1260P, i7-1165G7

Note: If the EUs (Execution Unit) in iGPU is less than 80, the inference speed will be too slow to use.

Memory

The memory is a limitation to run LLM on GPUs.

When run llama.cpp, there is print log to show the applied memory on GPU. You could know how much memory to be used in your case. Like llm_load_tensors: buffer size = 3577.56 MiB.

For iGPU, please make sure the shared memory from host memory is enough. For llama-2-7b.Q4_0, recommend the host memory is 8GB+.

For dGPU, please make sure the device memory is enough. For llama-2-7b.Q4_0, recommend the device memory is 4GB+.

Docker

Note:

Only docker on Linux is tested. Docker on WSL may not work.
You may need to install Intel GPU driver on the host machine (See the Linux section to know how to do that)

Build the image

You can choose between F16 and F32 build. F16 is faster for long-prompt inference.

# For F16:
#docker build -t llama-cpp-sycl --build-arg="LLAMA_SYCL_F16=ON" -f .devops/main-intel.Dockerfile .

# Or, for F32:
docker build -t llama-cpp-sycl -f .devops/main-intel.Dockerfile .

# Note: you can also use the ".devops/main-server.Dockerfile", which compiles the "server" example

Run

# Firstly, find all the DRI cards:
ls -la /dev/dri
# Then, pick the card that you want to use.

# For example with "/dev/dri/card1"
docker run -it --rm -v "$(pwd):/app:Z" --device /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128 --device /dev/dri/card1:/dev/dri/card1 llama-cpp-sycl -m "/app/models/YOUR_MODEL_FILE" -p "Building a website can be done in 10 simple steps:" -n 400 -e -ngl 33

Linux

Setup Environment

Install Intel GPU driver.

a. Please install Intel GPU driver by official guide: Install GPU Drivers.

Note: for iGPU, please install the client GPU driver.

b. Add user to group: video, render.

sudo usermod -aG render username
sudo usermod -aG video username

Note: re-login to enable it.

c. Check

sudo apt install clinfo
sudo clinfo -l

Output (example):

Platform #0: Intel(R) OpenCL Graphics
 `-- Device #0: Intel(R) Arc(TM) A770 Graphics


Platform #0: Intel(R) OpenCL HD Graphics
 `-- Device #0: Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics [0x9a49]

Install Intel® oneAPI Base toolkit.

a. Please follow the procedure in Get the Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit .

Recommend to install to default folder: /opt/intel/oneapi.

Following guide use the default folder as example. If you use other folder, please modify the following guide info with your folder.

b. Check

source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh

sycl-ls

There should be one or more level-zero devices. Please confirm that at least one GPU is present, like [ext_oneapi_level_zero:gpu:0].

Output (example):

[opencl:acc:0] Intel(R) FPGA Emulation Platform for OpenCL(TM), Intel(R) FPGA Emulation Device OpenCL 1.2  [2023.16.10.0.17_160000]
[opencl:cpu:1] Intel(R) OpenCL, 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700K OpenCL 3.0 (Build 0) [2023.16.10.0.17_160000]
[opencl:gpu:2] Intel(R) OpenCL Graphics, Intel(R) Arc(TM) A770 Graphics OpenCL 3.0 NEO  [23.30.26918.50]
[ext_oneapi_level_zero:gpu:0] Intel(R) Level-Zero, Intel(R) Arc(TM) A770 Graphics 1.3 [1.3.26918]

Build locally:

Note:

You can choose between F16 and F32 build. F16 is faster for long-prompt inference.
By default, it will build for all binary files. It will take more time. To reduce the time, we recommend to build for example/main only.

mkdir -p build
cd build
source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh

# For FP16:
#cmake .. -DLLAMA_SYCL=ON -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx -DLLAMA_SYCL_F16=ON

# Or, for FP32:
cmake .. -DLLAMA_SYCL=ON -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx

# Build example/main only
#cmake --build . --config Release --target main

# Or, build all binary
cmake --build . --config Release -v

cd ..

or

./examples/sycl/build.sh

Run

Put model file to folder models

You could download llama-2-7b.Q4_0.gguf as example.

Enable oneAPI running environment

source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh

List device ID

Run without parameter:

./build/bin/ls-sycl-device

# or running the "main" executable and look at the output log:

./build/bin/main

Check the ID in startup log, like:

found 4 SYCL devices:
  Device 0: Intel(R) Arc(TM) A770 Graphics,	compute capability 1.3,
    max compute_units 512,	max work group size 1024,	max sub group size 32,	global mem size 16225243136
  Device 1: Intel(R) FPGA Emulation Device,	compute capability 1.2,
    max compute_units 24,	max work group size 67108864,	max sub group size 64,	global mem size 67065057280
  Device 2: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700K,	compute capability 3.0,
    max compute_units 24,	max work group size 8192,	max sub group size 64,	global mem size 67065057280
  Device 3: Intel(R) Arc(TM) A770 Graphics,	compute capability 3.0,
    max compute_units 512,	max work group size 1024,	max sub group size 32,	global mem size 16225243136

Attribute	Note
compute capability 1.3	Level-zero running time, recommended
compute capability 3.0	OpenCL running time, slower than level-zero in most cases

Set device ID and execute llama.cpp

Set device ID = 0 by GGML_SYCL_DEVICE=0

GGML_SYCL_DEVICE=0 ./build/bin/main -m models/llama-2-7b.Q4_0.gguf -p "Building a website can be done in 10 simple steps:" -n 400 -e -ngl 33

or run by script:

./examples/sycl/run_llama2.sh

Note:

By default, mmap is used to read model file. In some cases, it leads to the hang issue. Recommend to use parameter --no-mmap to disable mmap() to skip this issue.

Check the device ID in output

Like:

Using device **0** (Intel(R) Arc(TM) A770 Graphics) as main device

Windows

Setup Environment

Install Intel GPU driver.

Please install Intel GPU driver by official guide: Install GPU Drivers.

Note: The driver is mandatory for compute function.

Install Visual Studio.

Please install Visual Studio which impact oneAPI environment enabling in Windows.

Install Intel® oneAPI Base toolkit.

a. Please follow the procedure in Get the Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit .

Recommend to install to default folder: /opt/intel/oneapi.

Following guide uses the default folder as example. If you use other folder, please modify the following guide info with your folder.

b. Enable oneAPI running environment:

In Search, input 'oneAPI'.

Search & open "Intel oneAPI command prompt for Intel 64 for Visual Studio 2022"

In Run:

In CMD:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\setvars.bat" intel64

c. Check GPU

In oneAPI command line:

sycl-ls

There should be one or more level-zero devices. Please confirm that at least one GPU is present, like [ext_oneapi_level_zero:gpu:0].

Output (example):

[opencl:acc:0] Intel(R) FPGA Emulation Platform for OpenCL(TM), Intel(R) FPGA Emulation Device OpenCL 1.2  [2023.16.10.0.17_160000]
[opencl:cpu:1] Intel(R) OpenCL, 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1185G7 @ 3.00GHz OpenCL 3.0 (Build 0) [2023.16.10.0.17_160000]
[opencl:gpu:2] Intel(R) OpenCL Graphics, Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics OpenCL 3.0 NEO  [31.0.101.5186]
[ext_oneapi_level_zero:gpu:0] Intel(R) Level-Zero, Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics 1.3 [1.3.28044]

Install cmake & make

a. Download & install cmake for Windows: https://cmake.org/download/

b. Download & install make for Windows provided by mingw-w64

Download binary package for Windows in https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds-binaries/releases.

Like x86_64-13.2.0-release-win32-seh-msvcrt-rt_v11-rev1.7z.
Unzip the binary package. In the bin sub-folder and rename xxx-make.exe to make.exe.
Add the bin folder path in the Windows system PATH environment.

Build locally:

In oneAPI command line window:

mkdir -p build
cd build
@call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\setvars.bat" intel64 --force

::  for FP16
::  faster for long-prompt inference
::  cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" ..  -DLLAMA_SYCL=ON -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icx  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DLLAMA_SYCL_F16=ON

::  for FP32
cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" ..  -DLLAMA_SYCL=ON -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icx  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release


::  build example/main only
::  make main

::  build all binary
make -j
cd ..

or

.\examples\sycl\win-build-sycl.bat

Note:

By default, it will build for all binary files. It will take more time. To reduce the time, we recommend to build for example/main only.

Run

Put model file to folder models

You could download llama-2-7b.Q4_0.gguf as example.

Enable oneAPI running environment

In Search, input 'oneAPI'.

Search & open "Intel oneAPI command prompt for Intel 64 for Visual Studio 2022"

In Run:

In CMD:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\setvars.bat" intel64

List device ID

Run without parameter:

build\bin\ls-sycl-device.exe

or

build\bin\main.exe

Check the ID in startup log, like:

found 4 SYCL devices:
  Device 0: Intel(R) Arc(TM) A770 Graphics,	compute capability 1.3,
    max compute_units 512,	max work group size 1024,	max sub group size 32,	global mem size 16225243136
  Device 1: Intel(R) FPGA Emulation Device,	compute capability 1.2,
    max compute_units 24,	max work group size 67108864,	max sub group size 64,	global mem size 67065057280
  Device 2: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700K,	compute capability 3.0,
    max compute_units 24,	max work group size 8192,	max sub group size 64,	global mem size 67065057280
  Device 3: Intel(R) Arc(TM) A770 Graphics,	compute capability 3.0,
    max compute_units 512,	max work group size 1024,	max sub group size 32,	global mem size 16225243136

Attribute	Note
compute capability 1.3	Level-zero running time, recommended
compute capability 3.0	OpenCL running time, slower than level-zero in most cases

Set device ID and execute llama.cpp

Set device ID = 0 by set GGML_SYCL_DEVICE=0

set GGML_SYCL_DEVICE=0
build\bin\main.exe -m models\llama-2-7b.Q4_0.gguf -p "Building a website can be done in 10 simple steps:\nStep 1:" -n 400 -e -ngl 33 -s 0

or run by script:

.\examples\sycl\win-run-llama2.bat

Note:

By default, mmap is used to read model file. In some cases, it leads to the hang issue. Recommend to use parameter --no-mmap to disable mmap() to skip this issue.

Check the device ID in output

Like:

Using device **0** (Intel(R) Arc(TM) A770 Graphics) as main device

Environment Variable

Build

Name	Value	Function
LLAMA_SYCL	ON (mandatory)	Enable build with SYCL code path. For FP32/FP16, LLAMA_SYCL=ON is mandatory.
LLAMA_SYCL_F16	ON (optional)	Enable FP16 build with SYCL code path. Faster for long-prompt inference. For FP32, not set it.
CMAKE_C_COMPILER	icx	Use icx compiler for SYCL code path
CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER	icpx (Linux), icx (Windows)	use icpx/icx for SYCL code path

Running

Name	Value	Function
GGML_SYCL_DEVICE	0 (default) or 1	Set the device id used. Check the device ids by default running output
GGML_SYCL_DEBUG	0 (default) or 1	Enable log function by macro: GGML_SYCL_DEBUG

Known Issue

Hang during startup

llama.cpp use mmap as default way to read model file and copy to GPU. In some system, memcpy will be abnormal and block.

Solution: add --no-mmap or --mmap 0.

Q&A

Error: error while loading shared libraries: libsycl.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

Miss to enable oneAPI running environment.

Install oneAPI base toolkit and enable it by: source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh.
In Windows, no result, not error.

Miss to enable oneAPI running environment.
Meet compile error.

Remove folder build and try again.
I can not see [ext_oneapi_level_zero:gpu:0] afer install GPU driver in Linux.

Please run sudo sycl-ls.

If you see it in result, please add video/render group to your ID:
```
sudo usermod -aG render username
sudo usermod -aG video username
```
Then relogin.

If you do not see it, please check the installation GPU steps again.

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Support multiple cards.

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llama.cpp for SYCL

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Linux

Setup Environment

Run

Windows

Setup Environment

Build locally:

Run

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Running

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llama.cpp for SYCL

Background

OS

Intel GPU

Verified

Memory

Docker

Build the image

Run

Linux

Setup Environment

Run

Windows

Setup Environment

Build locally:

Run

Environment Variable

Build

Running

Known Issue

Q&A

Todo