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Architectures with multiple classes of memory media are becoming a common part of mainstream supercomputer deployments. So called multi-level memories offer differing characteristics for each memory component including variation in…

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Sparse deep learning has reduced computation significantly, but its irregular non-zero data distribution complicates the data flow and hinders data reuse, increasing on-chip SRAM access and thus power consumption of the chip. This paper…

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The attention mechanism requires huge computational efforts to process unnecessary calculations, significantly limiting the system's performance. Researchers propose sparse attention to convert some DDMM operations to SDDMM and SpMM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Huize Li , Hai Jin , Long Zheng , Yu Huang , Xiaofei Liao , Dan Chen , Zhuohui Duan , Cong Liu , Jiahong Xu , Chuanyi Gui

Multiplying two sparse matrices (SpGEMM) is a common computational primitive used in many areas including graph algorithms, bioinformatics, algebraic multigrid solvers, and randomized sketching. Distributed-memory parallel algorithms for…

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Field Programmable Gate Arrays generate algorithmic specific architectures that improve the code's FLOP per watt ratio. Such devices are re-gaining interest due to the rise of new tools that facilitate their programming, such as OmpSs. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Guillermo Oyarzun , Daniel Peyrolon , Carlos Alvarez , Xavier Martorell

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are becoming the de facto solution for speech recognition. RNNs exploit long-term temporal relationships in data by applying repeated, learned transformations. Unlike fully-connected (FC) layers with single…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-27 Udit Gupta , Brandon Reagen , Lillian Pentecost , Marco Donato , Thierry Tambe , Alexander M. Rush , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks

We present an algorithm to reduce the computational effort for the multiplication of a given matrix with an unknown column vector. The algorithm decomposes the given matrix into a product of matrices whose entries are either zero or integer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Ralf R. Müller , Bernhard Gäde , Ali Bereyhi

The wide adoption of deep neural networks has been accompanied by ever-increasing energy and performance demands due to the expensive nature of training them. Numerous special-purpose architectures have been proposed to accelerate training:…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Aayush Ankit , Izzat El Hajj , Sai Rahul Chalamalasetti , Sapan Agarwal , Matthew Marinella , Martin Foltin , John Paul Strachan , Dejan Milojicic , Wen-mei Hwu , Kaushik Roy

This work evaluates the impact of sparse matrix reordering on the performance of sparse matrix-vector multiplication across different multicore CPU platforms. Reordering can significantly enhance performance by optimizing the non-zero…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Omid Asudeh , Sina Mahdipour Saravani , Gerald Sabin , Fabrice Rastello , P Sadayappan

A Content Addressable Memory (CAM) is a memory primarily designed for high speed search operation. Parallel search scheme forms the basis of CAM, thus power reduction is the challenge associated with a large amount of parallel active…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Mohammed Zackriya. , Harish M Kittur

Matrix multiplication computation acceleration has been a research hotspot across various domains. Due to the characteristics of some applications, approximate matrix multiplication can achieve significant performance improvements without…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Hongyaoxing Gu

Compute-in-memory (CIM) techniques are widely employed in energy-efficient artificial intelligent (AI) processors. They alleviate power and latency bottlenecks caused by extensive data movements between compute and storage units. To extend…

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We suggest a technique to reduce the storage size of sparse matrices at no loss of information. We call this technique Diagonally-Adressed (DA) storage. It exploits the typically low matrix bandwidth of matrices arising in applications. For…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Jens Saak , Jonas Schulze

General sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is an integral part of many scientific computing, high-performance computing (HPC), and graph analytic applications. This paper presents a new compressed sparse vector (CSV) format for…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Erfan Bank Tavakoli , Michael Riera , Masudul Hassan Quraishi , Fengbo Ren

Efficient topology optimization based on the adaptive auxiliary reduced model reanalysis (AARMR) is proposed to improve computational efficiency and scale. In this method, a projection auxiliary reduced model (PARM) is integrated into the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Jichao Yin , Hu Wang , Shuhao Li , Daozhen Guo

The importance of general matrix multiplication (GEMM) is motivating new instruction set extensions for multiplying dense matrices in almost all contemporary ISAs, and these extensions are often implemented using high-performance systolic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Tuan Ta , Joshua Randall , Christopher Batten

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

Distributed-memory matrix multiplication (MM) is a key element of algorithms in many domains (machine learning, quantum physics). Conventional algorithms for dense MM rely on regular/uniform data decomposition to ensure load balance. These…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Justus A. Calvin , Edward F. Valeev

We propose a novel approach to iterated sparse matrix dense matrix multiplication, a fundamental computational kernel in scientific computing and graph neural network training. In cases where matrix sizes exceed the memory of a single…

Achieving high efficiency with numerical kernels for sparse matrices is of utmost importance, since they are part of many simulation codes and tend to use most of the available compute time and resources. In addition, especially in large…

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