diff --git a/vllm/config.py b/vllm/config.py
index 5fb9563fcf3a..b858ca567547 100644
--- a/vllm/config.py
+++ b/vllm/config.py
@@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ def __post_init__(self) -> None:
                 raise ValueError(f"worker-use-ray can't be used with "
                                  f"distributed executor backend "
                                  f"'{self.distributed_executor_backend}'.")
-        ray_only_devices = ["tpu", "hpu"]
+        ray_only_devices = ["tpu"]
         if (current_platform.device_type in ray_only_devices
                 and self.world_size > 1):
             if self.distributed_executor_backend is None:
diff --git a/vllm/engine/async_llm_engine.py b/vllm/engine/async_llm_engine.py
index 60dccd7a0812..48e65cd9acfb 100644
--- a/vllm/engine/async_llm_engine.py
+++ b/vllm/engine/async_llm_engine.py
@@ -645,6 +645,10 @@ def _get_executor_cls(
             from vllm.executor.cpu_executor import CPUExecutorAsync
             executor_class = CPUExecutorAsync
         elif engine_config.device_config.device_type == "hpu":
+            if distributed_executor_backend == "mp":
+                from vllm.executor.multiproc_hpu_executor import (
+                    MultiprocessingHPUExecutorAsync)
+                executor_class = MultiprocessingHPUExecutorAsync
             if distributed_executor_backend == "ray":
                 initialize_ray_cluster(engine_config.parallel_config)
                 from vllm.executor.ray_hpu_executor import RayHPUExecutorAsync
diff --git a/vllm/engine/llm_engine.py b/vllm/engine/llm_engine.py
index 6eca304b45f0..ee58866b1b68 100644
--- a/vllm/engine/llm_engine.py
+++ b/vllm/engine/llm_engine.py
@@ -477,7 +477,11 @@ def _get_executor_cls(cls,
             from vllm.executor.cpu_executor import CPUExecutor
             executor_class = CPUExecutor
         elif engine_config.device_config.device_type == "hpu":
-            if distributed_executor_backend == "ray":
+            if distributed_executor_backend == "mp":
+                from vllm.executor.multiproc_hpu_executor import (
+                    MultiprocessingHPUExecutor)
+                executor_class = MultiprocessingHPUExecutor
+            elif distributed_executor_backend == "ray":
                 initialize_ray_cluster(engine_config.parallel_config)
                 from vllm.executor.ray_hpu_executor import RayHPUExecutor
                 executor_class = RayHPUExecutor
diff --git a/vllm/executor/multiproc_hpu_executor.py b/vllm/executor/multiproc_hpu_executor.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fdedbbe2b3b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vllm/executor/multiproc_hpu_executor.py
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+from typing import Callable, Optional, Tuple, Type
+
+import habana_frameworks.torch  # noqa: F401
+import torch
+
+from vllm.executor.multiproc_gpu_executor import (
+    MultiprocessingGPUExecutor, MultiprocessingGPUExecutorAsync)
+from vllm.logger import init_logger
+from vllm.utils import make_async
+from vllm.worker.worker_base import WorkerBase
+
+logger = init_logger(__name__)
+
+
+class MultiprocessingHPUExecutor(MultiprocessingGPUExecutor):
+    """Python multiprocessing-based multi-HPU executor"""
+
+    def _get_worker_module_and_class(
+            self) -> Tuple[str, str, Optional[Callable[[], Type[WorkerBase]]]]:
+        worker_class_fn = None
+        if self.speculative_config is not None:
+            module_name = "vllm.spec_decode.spec_decode_worker"
+            class_name = "create_spec_worker"
+        else:
+            module_name = "vllm.worker.hpu_worker"
+            class_name = "HPUWorker"
+        return (module_name, class_name, worker_class_fn)
+
+    def _check_executor_parameters(self):
+        world_size = self.parallel_config.world_size
+        tensor_parallel_size = self.parallel_config.tensor_parallel_size
+
+        hpu_device_count = torch.hpu.device_count()
+        assert tensor_parallel_size <= hpu_device_count, (
+            f"please set tensor_parallel_size ({tensor_parallel_size}) "
+            f"to less than max local hpu count ({hpu_device_count})")
+
+        assert world_size <= hpu_device_count, (
+            f"please ensure that world_size ({world_size}) "
+            f"is less than than max local hpu count ({hpu_device_count})")
+
+    def __del__(self):
+        self.shutdown()
+
+
+class MultiprocessingHPUExecutorAsync(MultiprocessingHPUExecutor,
+                                      MultiprocessingGPUExecutorAsync):
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        self.driver_exec_model = make_async(self.driver_worker.execute_model)
diff --git a/vllm/executor/multiproc_worker_utils.py b/vllm/executor/multiproc_worker_utils.py
index fe475db6d3f5..d187643392d5 100644
--- a/vllm/executor/multiproc_worker_utils.py
+++ b/vllm/executor/multiproc_worker_utils.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 import vllm.envs as envs
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
+from vllm.platforms import current_platform
 from vllm.triton_utils.importing import HAS_TRITON
 from vllm.utils import cuda_is_initialized
 
@@ -291,6 +292,22 @@ def set_multiprocessing_worker_envs(parallel_config):
                        "VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD to 'spawn'.")
         os.environ["VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD"] = "spawn"
 
+    if (current_platform.is_hpu()
+            and parallel_config.distributed_executor_backend == 'mp'
+            and envs.VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD == 'fork'):
+        if os.environ.get("VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD", None) is not None:
+            logger.warning("On HPU, VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=fork might "
+                           "cause application hangs on exit. Using "
+                           "VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=fork anyway, "
+                           "as it was explicitly requested.")
+        else:
+            logger.warning("On HPU, VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=fork might "
+                           "cause application hangs on exit. Setting "
+                           "VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD to 'spawn'. "
+                           "To override that behavior, please set "
+                           "VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=fork explicitly.")
+            os.environ["VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD"] = "spawn"
+
     # Configure thread parallelism if OMP_NUM_THREADS isn't set
     #
     # Helps to avoid CPU contention. The default of spawning a thread per