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Sparse data structures are commonly used in neural networks to reduce the memory footprint. These data structures are compact but cause irregularities such as random memory accesses, which prevent efficient use of the memory hierarchy. GPUs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hossein Albakri , Kazem Cheshmi

Applications in High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments face challenges due to increasing complexity. Among them, the increasing usage of sparse data pushes the limits of data structures and programming models and hampers the…

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Given the growing importance of large-scale graph analytics, there is a need to improve the performance of graph analysis frameworks without compromising on productivity. GraphMat is our solution to bridge this gap between a user-friendly…

Matrix/array analysis of networks can provide significant insight into their behavior and aid in their operation and protection. Prior work has demonstrated the analytic, performance, and compression capabilities of GraphBLAS…

Sparse matrix multiplication is an important kernel for large-scale graph processing and other data-intensive applications. In this paper, we implement various asynchronous, RDMA-based sparse times dense (SpMM) and sparse times sparse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Benjamin Brock , Aydın Buluç , Katherine Yelick

Sparse Matrix-Matrix multiplication is a key kernel that has applications in several domains such as scientific computing and graph analysis. Several algorithms have been studied in the past for this foundational kernel. In this paper, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Mehmet Deveci , Christian Trott , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam

Generalized sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (or SpGEMM) is a key primitive for many high performance graph algorithms as well as for some linear solvers, such as algebraic multigrid. Here we show that SpGEMM also yields efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Aydin Buluc , John Gilbert

Low-power small form factor data processing units (DPUs) enable offloading and acceleration of a broad range of networking and security services. DPUs have accelerated the transition to programmable networking by enabling the replacement of…

Scientific workloads have traditionally exploited high levels of sparsity to accelerate computation and reduce memory requirements. While deep neural networks can be made sparse, achieving practical speedups on GPUs is difficult because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Trevor Gale , Matei Zaharia , Cliff Young , Erich Elsen

Complex networks are relational data sets commonly represented as graphs. The analysis of their intricate structure is relevant to many areas of science and commerce, and data sets may reach sizes that require distributed storage and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Jannis Koch , Christian L. Staudt , Maximilian Vogel , Henning Meyerhenke

Graph processing systems are essential for analyzing large-scale data with complex relationships, yet most existing frameworks rely on statically provisioned clusters, resulting in poor elasticity and inefficient resource utilization under…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Chen Zhao , Parsa Poorsistani , Mohammad Goudarzi , Tawfiq Islam , Adel N. Toosi

Sparse-dense linear algebra is crucial in many domains, but challenging to handle efficiently on CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators alike; multiplications with sparse formats like CSR and CSF require indirect memory lookups. In this work, we…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Paul Scheffler , Florian Zaruba , Fabian Schuiki , Torsten Hoefler , Luca Benini

Designing and implementing efficient, provably correct parallel machine learning (ML) algorithms is challenging. Existing high-level parallel abstractions like MapReduce are insufficiently expressive while low-level tools like MPI and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-06-28 Yucheng Low , Joseph Gonzalez , Aapo Kyrola , Danny Bickson , Carlos Guestrin , Joseph M. Hellerstein

Computationally efficient matrix multiplication is a fundamental requirement in various fields, including and particularly in data analytics. To do so, the computation task of a large-scale matrix multiplication is typically outsourced to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Jaber Kakar , Seyedhamed Ebadifar , Aydin Sezgin

Designing and implementing efficient, provably correct parallel machine learning (ML) algorithms is challenging. Existing high-level parallel abstractions like MapReduce are insufficiently expressive while low-level tools like MPI and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Yucheng Low , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Aapo Kyrola , Danny Bickson , Carlos E. Guestrin , Joseph Hellerstein

Scaling up the sparse matrix-vector multiplication kernel on modern Graphics Processing Units (GPU) has been at the heart of numerous studies in both academia and industry. In this article we present a novel non-parametric, self-tunable,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-12-24 Xintian Yang , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Ponnuswamy Sadayappan

Multiplication of a sparse matrix to a dense matrix (SpDM) is widely used in many areas like scientific computing and machine learning. However, existing works under-look the performance optimization of SpDM on modern many-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Shaohuai Shi , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

Generalized Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpGEMM) is a ubiquitous task in various engineering and scientific applications. However, inner product based SpGENN introduces redundant input fetches for mismatched nonzero operands, while…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zhekai Zhang , Hanrui Wang , Song Han , William J. Dally

The MIT/IEEE/Amazon Graph Challenge provides a venue for individuals and teams to showcase new innovations in large-scale graph and sparse data analysis. The Anonymized Network Sensing Graph Challenge processes over 100 billion network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Inna Voloshchuk , Hayden Jananthan , Chansup Byun , Jeremy Kepner

Although the matrix multiplication plays a vital role in computational linear algebra, there are few efficient solutions for matrix multiplication of the near-sparse matrices. The Sparse Approximate Matrix Multiply (SpAMM) is one of the…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xiaoyan Liu , Yi Liu , Ming Dun , Bohong Yin , Hailong Yang , Zhongzhi Luan , Depei Qian