Migrate docs from Sphinx to MkDocs (#18145)

Signed-off-by: Harry Mellor <19981378+hmellor@users.noreply.github.com>

docs/README.md

@@ -1,43 +1,50 @@
-# vLLM documents
+# Welcome to vLLM
 
-## Build the docs
+<figure markdown="span">
+  ![](./assets/logos/vllm-logo-text-light.png){ align="center" alt="vLLM" class="no-scaled-link" width="60%" }
+</figure>
 
-- Make sure in `docs` directory
+<p style="text-align:center">
+<strong>Easy, fast, and cheap LLM serving for everyone
+</strong>
+</p>
 
-```bash
-cd docs
-```
+<p style="text-align:center">
+<script async defer src="https://buttons.github.io/buttons.js"></script>
+<a class="github-button" href="https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm" data-show-count="true" data-size="large" aria-label="Star">Star</a>
+<a class="github-button" href="https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/subscription" data-icon="octicon-eye" data-size="large" aria-label="Watch">Watch</a>
+<a class="github-button" href="https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/fork" data-icon="octicon-repo-forked" data-size="large" aria-label="Fork">Fork</a>
+</p>
 
-- Install the dependencies:
+vLLM is a fast and easy-to-use library for LLM inference and serving.
 
-```bash
-pip install -r ../requirements/docs.txt
-```
+Originally developed in the [Sky Computing Lab](https://sky.cs.berkeley.edu) at UC Berkeley, vLLM has evolved into a community-driven project with contributions from both academia and industry.
 
-- Clean the previous build (optional but recommended):
+vLLM is fast with:
 
-```bash
-make clean
-```
+- State-of-the-art serving throughput
+- Efficient management of attention key and value memory with [**PagedAttention**](https://blog.vllm.ai/2023/06/20/vllm.html)
+- Continuous batching of incoming requests
+- Fast model execution with CUDA/HIP graph
+- Quantization: [GPTQ](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17323), [AWQ](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00978), INT4, INT8, and FP8
+- Optimized CUDA kernels, including integration with FlashAttention and FlashInfer.
+- Speculative decoding
+- Chunked prefill
 
-- Generate the HTML documentation:
+vLLM is flexible and easy to use with:
 
-```bash
-make html
-```
+- Seamless integration with popular HuggingFace models
+- High-throughput serving with various decoding algorithms, including *parallel sampling*, *beam search*, and more
+- Tensor parallelism and pipeline parallelism support for distributed inference
+- Streaming outputs
+- OpenAI-compatible API server
+- Support NVIDIA GPUs, AMD CPUs and GPUs, Intel CPUs, Gaudi® accelerators and GPUs, IBM Power CPUs, TPU, and AWS Trainium and Inferentia Accelerators.
+- Prefix caching support
+- Multi-lora support
 
-## Open the docs with your browser
+For more information, check out the following:
 
-- Serve the documentation locally:
-
-```bash
-python -m http.server -d build/html/
-```
-
-This will start a local server at http://localhost:8000. You can now open your browser and view the documentation.
-
-If port 8000 is already in use, you can specify a different port, for example:
-
-```bash
-python -m http.server 3000 -d build/html/
-```
+- [vLLM announcing blog post](https://vllm.ai) (intro to PagedAttention)
+- [vLLM paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06180) (SOSP 2023)
+- [How continuous batching enables 23x throughput in LLM inference while reducing p50 latency](https://www.anyscale.com/blog/continuous-batching-llm-inference) by Cade Daniel et al.
+- [vLLM Meetups][meetups]