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Community maintained hardware plugin for vLLM on Huawei Ascend

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About the project

A hardware plugin for vLLM that runs LLM inference on Ascend NPUs (Atlas A2/A3). It enables deployment of Transformer, MoE, embedding and multimodal models on Huawei Ascend hardware.

Useful for
  • Serve LLMs on an Atlas A2 cluster via vLLM
  • Deploy a multimodal or MoE model on Ascend NPUs
  • Set up large-scale Expert Parallelism for big MoE models

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0.8 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score.

Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 2, 2026, 10:18 UTC.

The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.

Stars per day

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  • A steady background without notable changes.

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Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 10 · September 29, 2026. Days with data: 3.

Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 2, 2026, 10:18 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →

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Total stars
2,918
Today
+0 stars on 2026-10-02 (UTC), ≈ 1 by evening
Forks
2,387
Issues and pull requests
17,848
Watchers
75
Language
Python
License
Apache-2.0
Latest release
v0.27.1rc1 · September 29, 2026
Created
January 29, 2025
Last push
October 1, 2026

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