htop-style process monitor for GPUs and AI accelerators. Supports AMD, Apple, Huawei, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm — and Tenstorrent. Real-time utilization, memory, and process info in a terminal UI.

Vendor-agnostic orchestration for training, inference, and agentic workloads across NVIDIA, AMD, TPU, and Tenstorrent on clouds, Kubernetes, and bare metal.

Open-source CUDA compiler targeting multiple GPU architectures including Tenstorrent. Compiles .cu files to run on AMD and Tenstorrent hardware without modification.

Boltz-2 biomolecular model for drug discovery on Tenstorrent Blackhole. Supports single-card and multi-card configurations — QuietBox (4×) and Galaxy (32×). Approaches physics-based FEP accuracy at 1000× the speed.

Minimal Python code to access and program the Tenstorrent Blackhole chip directly — George Hotz's exploration of TT hardware programmability with pointed commentary on the architecture.

Community-built Tenstorrent architecture simulator written in Python. Runs without hardware — useful for researchers and developers exploring the Tensix architecture offline.

IREE (Intermediate Representation Execution Environment) ML compiler ported to Tenstorrent AI accelerators. Brings the IREE compiler ecosystem to TT hardware.

OpenAI Triton compiler plugin for Tenstorrent hardware. Write Triton kernels and target Tensix cores — brings the Triton ML kernel ecosystem to TT devices.

Boot stock Linux cloud images on the SiFive X280 RISC-V cores inside Tenstorrent Blackhole AI accelerators. Per-card Rust daemon with virtio-mmio block/net/console and U-Boot/EFI support.

Deep-dive into the Tenstorrent architecture and Metalium programming model — circular buffers, kernel synchronization, NoC routing, and where the footguns are. The honest guide to thinking in Tensix.

Sponsored series of deep technical articles on implementing optimal SFPU kernels for the Tenstorrent Wormhole and Blackhole vector units. Covers where, typecasting, 16/32-bit integer multiplication, cube root, and accurate sin/cos/tan — with cycle counts, assembly walkthroughs, and Blackhole vs Wormhole comparisons throughout.

A 6,500-word community deep dive into the Blackhole p100a architecture: the tile model (Tensix, DRAM, SiFive x280 L2CPU, Ethernet, PCIe, NoC arc), firmware startup sequence, MOP micro-op processor, replay buffer, FPU/SFPU sync, and the anatomy of a kernel. From the author of blackhole-py.

FlashAttention-style attention kernel implemented entirely in on-chip SRAM on the Tenstorrent Grayskull chip using TT-Metalium. Pioneering work in low-level attention on TT hardware.

A Tenstorrent Grayskull kernel written live on Twitch by George Hotz. 120-core grid demonstration of live kernel programming.

Example applications and deployment configurations for running AI workloads on Tenstorrent hardware via Koyeb's cloud platform.

Simple C++ kernel experiments on a GraySkull e75 chip. Hands-on examples for learning the TT-Metal programming model at the metal level.

Minimal working example of using Tenstorrent TTNN in C++. The simplest possible starting point for C++ developers targeting TT hardware with TTNN.

Conway's Game of Life implemented on Tenstorrent hardware using TT-Metal kernels.

Pure Python driver for Tenstorrent Blackhole cards providing direct low-level hardware access without going through the full TT-Metal stack.

Mandelbrot Set fractal renderer running on Tenstorrent hardware. A classic demo showcasing parallel compute on Tensix cores.

Minimal working CMake project template for starting a new TT-Metal project from scratch. Good starting point for community kernel development.

Tutorial on Tenstorrent hardware for HPC researchers from the RISC-V Testbed project at Edinburgh/EPCC. Covers Wormhole from an HPC parallel-computing perspective.

clpeak-style peak-performance benchmark for Tenstorrent devices using TT-Metalium. Measures theoretical peak throughput across operations — useful for hardware characterization.

Nix flake packaging the Tenstorrent software stack for NixOS and Nix users. Reproducible, declarative installation of TT drivers and tools.

High-level parallel programming framework for Tenstorrent accelerators, abstracting TT-Metal into a research-oriented programming model for parallel computation.

Minimal vector-addition example on Tenstorrent devices using TT-Metalium. A clean hello-world for the TT-Metal kernel programming model in C++.

Comprehensive tutorials for the Tenstorrent software stack in Korean. Jupyter notebooks covering the full developer path from hardware setup to model inference.

Master's thesis implementing and benchmarking five allreduce algorithms (Swing, Recursive Doubling, Bandwidth Optimal, Latency Optimal, Shared Memory) on the Wormhole n150. Bandwidth Optimal achieved best performance, approaching within 2× of theoretical optimal.

Port of Gaussian Splatting (3D scene reconstruction from 2D images) to Tenstorrent hardware.

Step-by-step guide to getting a Tenstorrent card running on Arch Linux with the full Metalium stack. Practical troubleshooting from someone who did it the hard way first.

Honest field notes from getting a Grayskull card running and writing first Metalium kernels. Covers setup pitfalls, processor hangs, memory protection quirks, and what makes Metalium compelling despite early rough edges.

Lecture 20 from William & Mary's graduate Computer Architecture course. Frames Tenstorrent in the landscape between GPUs and TPUs, draws comparisons to Cerebras and SambaNova, then dives deep into the Wormhole chip and Tensix core: the 5 RISC-V core design, SFPU, NoC, and dataflow execution model.

A fused kernel for the Grayskull architecture implementing Transformer self-attention entirely within SRAM. Combines matrix multiply, attention score scaling, and Softmax without DRAM accesses, achieving significant speedups over non-fused implementations.

Ports the Cooley-Tukey FFT algorithm to the Wormhole n300 RISC-V accelerator. The Wormhole draws 8× less power and consumes 2.8× less energy than a 24-core Xeon Platinum for a 2D FFT. ISC 2025.

Evaluates the Tenstorrent Grayskull e75 RISC-V accelerator for matrix multiplication at reduced numerical precision (BFP8 and LoFi), a fundamental kernel in LLM inference computation.

Evaluates three strategies for scaling an N-body code across multiple Tenstorrent Wormhole accelerators. Builds on the established performance of single-card N-body work to explore parallelism via the on-chip NoC and multi-accelerator configurations.

Accelerates an astrophysical N-body simulation on the Wormhole n300. Achieves 2× speedup and 2× energy savings over a highly optimized CPU implementation. SC '25 Workshop.

Implements three numerical kernels and composes them into a conjugate gradient solver on Wormhole. Demonstrates AI accelerators merit consideration for HPC workloads traditionally dominated by CPUs and GPUs. 2026.

Explores stencil computation on the Grayskull PCIe RISC-V accelerator. Early academic work examining TT hardware for HPC stencil workloads. 2024.

Maps 2D 5-point stencil computations onto the Tenstorrent Wormhole RISC-V AI dataflow accelerator via two implementations: element-wise decomposition (Axpy) and matrix-multiplication reformulation (MatMul). Profiling shows the isolated Wormhole kernel is competitive with CPU execution, with PCIe transfers and initialization driving end-to-end overhead; Axpy achieves lower energy than the CPU baseline at large scales. Identifies architectural and software directions for making AI accelerators viable for HPC stencil workloads. 2025.

Makes multi-tenant NPU sharing practical for Blackhole-class hardware using polynomial-time allocation algorithms. Delivers up to 1.37× higher utilization and 1.14× faster workload completion. Up to 890,000× faster than NP-hard baselines.

Compiler system that automatically generates efficient dataflow plans for tile-based languages on spatial accelerators including Tenstorrent Wormhole. Exploits on-chip network forwarding between processing elements to reduce DRAM pressure.

Shows that Text-to-Speech inference on Tenstorrent Lightning V2 achieves 4× lower cost than NVIDIA L40S. Applies BlockFloat8 (BFP8) and low-fidelity (LoFi) precision strategies to TTS despite their greater numerical fragility compared to LLMs.

A Tenstorrent fork of Infocom's Zork I (and more!), running a Z-machine interpreter at least four different ways on TT hardware. The most fun you can have with an AI accelerator.

Three agentic projects running fully on-device: local AI agents on QuietBox 2, a coding assistant powered by Aider against a local inference server, and the OpenClaw AI assistant on QuietBox 2. No cloud APIs — all inference runs on TT hardware.

Three lesson-projects covering on-device video synthesis: frame-by-frame diffusion with tt-local-generator, native AnimateDiff video animation, and video generation on QuietBox 2. All run entirely on TT hardware with no cloud dependency.

Hardware topology visualizer for Tenstorrent chips — from individual chip to full cluster. Interactive JavaScript visualization of Tensix core layout and NoC connections.

Particle Life simulation on Tenstorrent hardware — an emergent-behavior N-body system where simple attraction/repulsion rules between species produce complex lifelike patterns. Cookbook recipe demonstrating parallel N-body compute on Tensix.

Seven-module computer science curriculum taught on real Tenstorrent hardware. Covers RISC-V architecture, memory hierarchy, parallel computing, networks and NoC, synchronization, abstraction layers, and computational complexity — all grounded in what is physically happening on the chip.

A growing collection of models that use tt-lang for some or all of their implementation. Reference implementations for bringing modern models to the tt-lang DSL.

Sync your Tenstorrent Quietbox's RGB lighting to accelerator utilization status. Visual feedback for hardware activity in real time.

Gemma 4 language model implemented in tt-lang (e4b variant) for direct execution on Tenstorrent hardware.

tt-lang inference script for Oasis 500M — an interactive video world model running on Tenstorrent hardware via the tt-lang DSL.

Discover, load, and benchmark models with a GUI and TUI for tt-inference-server. Makes exploring available models on Tenstorrent hardware as easy as browsing a catalog.

A Tenstorrent-powered claw machine that rewards players with real prizes. The QuietBox 2 runs local AI inference to act as an agent controlling the claw hardware — the OpenClaw AI assistant lesson builds directly on this project.

DFlash: Block Diffusion for Flash Speculative Decoding on Tenstorrent hardware using tt-lang. Combines block diffusion with speculative decoding for faster inference.

DIAMOND: Atari game-playing agent implemented on Tenstorrent hardware via tt-lang. Diffusion-based world model for reinforcement learning.

A Tenstorrent port of the DeepSeek Engram model using tt-lang. Brings DeepSeek's memory-efficient architecture to TT hardware.

On-device image generation with Stable Diffusion XL running entirely on Tenstorrent hardware. Full inference pipeline with no cloud dependency.

Compile more than 100 models on tt-forge in a display format suitable for demos. Comprehensive showcase of tt-forge model compatibility.

End-to-end image classification project using TT-Forge — compile and run a PyTorch classification model on Tenstorrent hardware with no kernel authoring required.

Warp terminal plugin for Tenstorrent — integrates hardware status, model management, and developer workflows directly into the Warp terminal.

Interactive browser-based visualizer of the Tenstorrent Tensix grid architecture. Explore the NoC, core layout, and dataflow patterns without hardware — a great companion for learning kernel programming.

TT-Metalium implementation of Conway's Game of Life as a cookbook recipe. Each generation is a full parallel kernel dispatch over the grid — a clean introduction to stateful compute on Tensix cores.

Eight-lesson series covering the full custom training workflow on TT hardware: dataset fundamentals, configuration patterns, fine-tuning, multi-device distributed training, experiment tracking, model architecture basics, and training from scratch.

Three hands-on TT-Metalium kernel recipes: a Mandelbrot fractal explorer, real-time audio signal processing pipeline, and custom image filter stack. Each recipe is a complete kernel project with full source in the lesson.

Linux demo for the Tenstorrent Blackhole P100/P150 card RISC-V cores. Boot a real Linux kernel on the 16 high-performance RISC-V cores built into the Blackhole chip.

Browser-based cloud console for exploring AI on Tenstorrent hardware. Run LLM inference, image and video generation, and browse the supported model catalog in-browser — backed by Tenstorrent accelerators. Cloud hardware access and advanced workflows (deployments, agents) available in staged rollout.

TT-NN operator library and TT-Metalium low-level kernel programming model. The primary SDK for developing on Tenstorrent hardware — from high-level tensor ops to bare-metal RISC-V kernels.

TT-BUDA: Tenstorrent's original Python compiler and runtime for AI workloads. Legacy stack — tt-forge is the recommended successor, but tt-buda has the largest model demo library.

Tenstorrent MLIR compiler — the core compiler infrastructure shared by tt-forge and other frontends. Handles graph optimization, lowering, and code generation for Tensix hardware.

The Berkeley Out-of-Order Machine with V-EXT (RISC-V Vector Extension) support. Tenstorrent's research-grade out-of-order RISC-V core with vector extension.

Tenstorrent's MLIR-based compiler frontend. Enables running AI workloads from PyTorch, ONNX, and other frameworks on all Tenstorrent hardware configurations through an open-source, general, and performant compiler.

RISC-V Instruction Set Simulator (ISS) used by Tenstorrent for processor verification. Powers the co-simulation architecture checker.

Repository of model demos using TT-Buda. The largest collection of pre-compiled model examples for Tenstorrent hardware — BERT, ResNet, YOLO, GPT-2, Whisper, and many more.

Tenstorrent kernel module driver. The Linux kernel module required to interface with Tenstorrent PCIe accelerator cards.

RISC-V Directed Test Framework and Compliance Suite. Comprehensive test infrastructure for verifying RISC-V processor implementations against the specification.

Tenstorrent System Management Interface — monitor device telemetry, issue board-level resets, and inspect hardware health. The nvidia-smi equivalent for Tenstorrent hardware.

PJRT device plugin for Tenstorrent hardware. Enables JAX, PyTorch/XLA, and other XLA-based frameworks to target TT accelerators.

Production-ready model serving for Tenstorrent hardware with OpenAI-compatible REST API. Supports continuous batching, multiple models, and all TT hardware configurations.

Comprehensive tool for visualizing and analyzing model execution on Tenstorrent hardware. Interactive graphs, memory plots, tensor details, buffer overviews, operation flow graphs, and multi-instance support.

Fast full-system simulator of Tenstorrent Wormhole and Blackhole hardware. Runs TT-Metalium workloads on any Linux/x86_64 system without physical silicon. Bit-exact results relative to hardware.

Tenstorrent Low-Level Kernels: the C++ library that directly programs the RISC-V cores inside each Tensix compute engine. TRISC0 (unpack), TRISC1 (math/FPU/SFPU), and TRISC2 (pack) are all programmed through this layer — it is the interface between TT-Metal kernel code and bare silicon.

Web-based GUI for deploying and chatting with AI models on Tenstorrent hardware. Handles all technical setup automatically — deploy models, run inference, and explore capabilities through a simple browser interface.

Lightweight BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) for STM32 and similar MCUs, with Web UI, Redfish API, and HTTPS support. Built on Zephyr RTOS. Used in Tenstorrent systems.

Python-based domain-specific language for authoring custom operations on Tenstorrent hardware. Expresses concurrent compute and data-movement programs that compile directly to Tensix kernels.

User-mode driver for Tenstorrent hardware. The userspace layer that sits between the kernel module and higher-level SDKs.

System firmware for Tenstorrent hardware. Low-level system initialization and control firmware that runs on-device.

Tenstorrent system interface library written in Rust. Low-level Rust bindings for communicating with and managing TT hardware.

TVM for Tenstorrent ASICs. Brings the Apache TVM compiler stack to Tenstorrent hardware, enabling model compilation from TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX, and more.

ISA-level simulator for the Tensix compute engine. Simulates the matrix, vector, and scalar units inside each Tensix core.

Frontend integration for PyTorch with tt-mlir. Compile PyTorch models directly to Tenstorrent hardware via torch.compile integration.

Tenstorrent firmware repository. Board management and control firmware for Tenstorrent accelerator cards.

Install the complete Tenstorrent software stack with one command. Handles drivers, firmware, Python environment, and SDK setup automatically.

Low-level hardware debugger for Tenstorrent devices. Inspect register state, memory contents, and kernel execution at the hardware level.

Configure Ethernet routing on multi-card Tenstorrent systems. Flash NB cards to use specific ETH routing configurations for scale-out deployments.

Network-on-chip Performance Estimator for Tenstorrent Tensix-based devices. Model and estimate NoC utilization before running kernels on hardware.

End-to-end AI applications running on Tenstorrent AI accelerators. Complete application examples from retrieval-augmented generation to image generation pipelines.

Tenstorrent firmware update utility. Flash new firmware onto Tenstorrent accelerator cards from the command line.

Optimized training recipes for a variety of ML models on Tenstorrent hardware, powered by the TT-Forge compiler stack. Reference implementations for fine-tuning and training from scratch.

48 interactive lessons covering the full Tenstorrent developer path — from hardware detection to custom training — with click-to-run commands and hardware auto-detection. Available in VSCode and code-server.

Generate infinite videos and images (and imaginative prompts to inspire them) on Tenstorrent's Quietbox 2. Fully local generative media pipeline.

A vibrant htop-style visualizer for Tenstorrent hardware written in Rust. Real-time process and utilization view for TT accelerators.