# NPU

vLLM-Omni supports NPU through the vLLM Ascend Plugin (vllm-ascend). This is a community maintained hardware plugin for running vLLM on NPU.

## Requirements

- OS: Linux
- Python: 3.12

!!! note
    vLLM-Omni is currently not natively supported on Windows.

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## Installation

### Set up using Docker

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### Build wheel from source

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