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Full Version: (De/Re)-Composition of Data-Parallel Computations via Multi-Dimensional Homomorphisms

Programming Languages 2025-07-01 v4

Abstract

We formally introduce a systematic (de/re)-composition approach, based on the algebraic formalism of "Multi-Dimensional Homomorphisms (MDHs)". Our approach is designed as general enough to be applicable to a wide range of data-parallel computations and for various kinds of target parallel architectures. To efficiently target the deep and complex memory and core hierarchies of contemporary architectures, we exploit our introduced (de/re)-composition approach for a correct-by-construction, parametrized cache blocking and parallelization strategy. We show that our approach is powerful enough to express, in the same formalism, the (de/re)-composition strategies of different classes of state-of-the-art approaches (scheduling-based, polyhedral, etc), and we demonstrate that the parameters of our strategies enable systematically generating code that can be fully automatically optimized (auto-tuned) for the particular target architecture and characteristics of the input and output data (e.g., their sizes and memory layouts). Particularly, our experiments confirm that via auto-tuning, we achieve higher performance than state-of-the-art approaches, including hand-optimized solutions provided by vendors (such as NVIDIA cuBLAS/cuDNN and Intel oneMKL/oneDNN), on real-world data sets and for a variety of data-parallel computations, including: linear algebra routines, stencil and quantum chemistry computations, data mining algorithms, and computations that recently gained high attention due to their relevance for deep learning.

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@article{arxiv.2405.05118,
  title  = {Full Version: (De/Re)-Composition of Data-Parallel Computations via Multi-Dimensional Homomorphisms},
  author = {Ari Rasch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.05118},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

A short version of this paper is published at ACM TOPLAS and presented at PLDI'24

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