What is vllm-ascend?
vLLM Ascend plugin for LLM inference serving on Huawei Ascend NPU. Use for offline batch inference, API server deployment, quantization inference (with msmodelslim quantized models), tensor/pipeline parallelism for distributed serving, and OpenAI-compatible API endpoints. Supports Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, LLaMA models with Ascend-optimized kernels. Source: ascend-ai-coding/awesome-ascend-skills.