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vLLM has experimental support for s390x architecture on IBM Z platform. For now, users must build from source to natively run on IBM Z platform.

Currently, the CPU implementation for s390x architecture supports FP32 datatype only.

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- OS: `Linux`
- SDK: `gcc/g++ >= 12.3.0` or later with Command Line Tools
- Instruction Set Architecture (ISA): VXE support is required. Works with Z14 and above.
- Build install python packages: `pyarrow`, `torch` and `torchvision`

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Currently, there are no pre-built IBM Z CPU wheels.

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Install the following packages from the package manager before building the vLLM. For example on RHEL 9.4:

```bash
dnf install -y \
    which procps findutils tar vim git gcc g++ make patch make cython zlib-devel \
    libjpeg-turbo-devel libtiff-devel libpng-devel libwebp-devel freetype-devel harfbuzz-devel \
    openssl-devel openblas openblas-devel wget autoconf automake libtool cmake numactl-devel
```

Install rust>=1.80 which is needed for `outlines-core` and `uvloop` python packages installation.

```bash
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh -s -- -y && \
    . "$HOME/.cargo/env"
```

Execute the following commands to build and install vLLM from source.

!!! tip
    Please build the following dependencies, `torchvision`, `pyarrow` from source before building vLLM.

```bash
    sed -i '/^torch/d' requirements/build.txt    # remove torch from requirements/build.txt since we use nightly builds
    uv pip install -v \
        --torch-backend auto \
        -r requirements/build.txt \
        -r requirements/cpu.txt \
    VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=cpu python setup.py bdist_wheel && \
        uv pip install dist/*.whl
```

??? console "pip"
    ```bash
        sed -i '/^torch/d' requirements/build.txt    # remove torch from requirements/build.txt since we use nightly builds
        pip install -v \
            --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cpu \
            -r requirements/build.txt \
            -r requirements/cpu.txt \
        VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=cpu python setup.py bdist_wheel && \
            pip install dist/*.whl
    ```

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Currently, there are no pre-built IBM Z CPU images.

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```bash
docker build -f docker/Dockerfile.s390x \
    --tag vllm-cpu-env .

# Launch OpenAI server
docker run --rm \
    --privileged true \
    --shm-size 4g \
    -p 8000:8000 \
    -e VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE=<KV cache space> \
    -e VLLM_CPU_OMP_THREADS_BIND=<CPU cores for inference> \
    vllm-cpu-env \
    --model meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct \
    --dtype float \
    other vLLM OpenAI server arguments
```

!!! tip
    An alternative of `--privileged true` is `--cap-add SYS_NICE --security-opt seccomp=unconfined`.

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