vllm-ascend/docs/source/quick_start.md

Quickstart

Prerequisites

Supported Devices

• Atlas A2 Training series (Atlas 800T A2, Atlas 900 A2 PoD, Atlas 200T A2 Box16, Atlas 300T A2)
• Atlas 800I A2 Inference series (Atlas 800I A2)

Prepare Environment

You can use the container image directly with one line command:

# Update DEVICE according to your device (/dev/davinci[0-7])
DEVICE=/dev/davinci7
IMAGE=quay.io/ascend/cann:8.0.rc3.beta1-910b-ubuntu22.04-py3.10
docker run \
    --name vllm-ascend-env --device $DEVICE \
    --device /dev/davinci_manager --device /dev/devmm_svm --device /dev/hisi_hdc \
    -v /usr/local/dcmi:/usr/local/dcmi -v /usr/local/bin/npu-smi:/usr/local/bin/npu-smi \
    -v /usr/local/Ascend/driver/lib64/:/usr/local/Ascend/driver/lib64/ \
    -v /usr/local/Ascend/driver/version.info:/usr/local/Ascend/driver/version.info \
    -v /etc/ascend_install.info:/etc/ascend_install.info \
    -v /root/.cache:/root/.cache \
    -it --rm $IMAGE bash

You can verify by running below commands in above container shell:

npu-smi info

You will see following message:

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| npu-smi 23.0.2              Version: 23.0.2                                               |
+----------------------+---------------+----------------------------------------------------+
| NPU   Name           | Health        | Power(W)    Temp(C)           Hugepages-Usage(page)|
| Chip                 | Bus-Id        | AICore(%)   Memory-Usage(MB)  HBM-Usage(MB)        |
+======================+===============+====================================================+
| 0     xxx            | OK            | 0.0         40                0    / 0             |
| 0                    | 0000:C1:00.0  | 0           882  / 15169      0    / 32768         |
+======================+===============+====================================================+

Installation

Prepare:

apt update
apt install git curl vim -y
# Config pypi mirror to speedup
pip config set global.index-url https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/pypi/web/simple

Create your venv

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip

You can install vLLM and vllm-ascend plugin by using:

# Install vLLM main branch (About 5 mins)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm.git
cd vllm
VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=empty pip install .
cd ..

# Install vLLM Ascend Plugin:
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend.git
cd vllm-ascend
pip install -e .
cd ..

Usage

After vLLM and vLLM Ascend plugin installation, you can start to try vLLM QuickStart.

You have two ways to start vLLM on Ascend NPU:

Offline Batched Inference with vLLM

With vLLM installed, you can start generating texts for list of input prompts (i.e. offline batch inferencing).

# Use Modelscope mirror to speed up download
pip install modelscope
export VLLM_USE_MODELSCOPE=true

Try to run below Python script directly or use python3 shell to generate texts:

from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams

prompts = [
    "Hello, my name is",
    "The future of AI is",
]
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.8, top_p=0.95)
# The first run will take about 3-5 mins (10 MB/s) to download models
llm = LLM(model="Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct")

outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)

for output in outputs:
    prompt = output.prompt
    generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
    print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}, Generated text: {generated_text!r}")

OpenAI Completions API with vLLM

vLLM can also be deployed as a server that implements the OpenAI API protocol. Run the following command to start the vLLM server with the Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct model:

# Use Modelscope mirror to speed up download
pip install modelscope
export VLLM_USE_MODELSCOPE=true
# Deploy vLLM server (The first run will take about 3-5 mins (10 MB/s) to download models)
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct &

If you see log as below:

INFO:     Started server process [3594]
INFO:     Waiting for application startup.
INFO:     Application startup complete.
INFO:     Uvicorn running on http://0.0.0.0:8000 (Press CTRL+C to quit)

Congratulations, you have successfully started the vLLM server!

You can query the list the models:

curl http://localhost:8000/v1/models | python3 -m json.tool

You can also query the model with input prompts:

curl http://localhost:8000/v1/completions \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
        "model": "Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct",
        "prompt": "Beijing is a",
        "max_tokens": 5,
        "temperature": 0
    }' | python3 -m json.tool

vLLM is serving as background process, you can use kill -2 $VLLM_PID to stop the background process gracefully, it's equal to Ctrl-C to stop foreground vLLM process:

ps -ef | grep "/.venv/bin/vllm serve" | grep -v grep
VLLM_PID=`ps -ef | grep "/.venv/bin/vllm serve" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
kill -2 $VLLM_PID

You will see output as below:

INFO 02-12 03:34:10 launcher.py:59] Shutting down FastAPI HTTP server.
INFO:     Shutting down
INFO:     Waiting for application shutdown.
INFO:     Application shutdown complete.

Finally, you can exit container by using ctrl-D.