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Sparse Matrix Vector multiplication (SpMV) is one of basic building blocks in scientific computing, and acceleration of SpMV has been continuously required. In this research, we aim for accelerating SpMV on recent CPUs for sparse matrices…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Takeshi Fukaya , Koki Ishida , Akie Miura , Takeshi Iwashita , Hiroshi Nakashima

Several manufacturers have already started to commercialize near-bank Processing-In-Memory (PIM) architectures. Near-bank PIM architectures place simple cores close to DRAM banks and can yield significant performance and energy improvements…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Christina Giannoula , Ivan Fernandez , Juan Gómez-Luna , Nectarios Koziris , Georgios Goumas , Onur Mutlu

Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental computation in graph analytics, scientific simulation, and sparse deep learning workloads. However, the extreme irregularity of real-world sparse matrices prevents existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Aiying Li , Jingwei Sun , Han Li , Wence Ji , Guangzhong Sun

Sparse matrix vector multiplication (SpMV) is an important kernel in scientific and engineering applications. The previous optimizations are sparse matrix format specific and expose the choice of the best format to application programmers.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Jiajia Li , Xiuxia Zhang , Guangming Tan , Mingyu Chen

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is the core operation in many common network and graph analytics, but poor performance of the SpMV kernel handicaps these applications. This work quantifies the effect of matrix structure on SpMV…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Daniel Kimball , Elizabeth Michel , Paul Keltcher , Michael M. Wolf

Sparse matrix vector multiplication (SpMV) is a fundamental kernel in scientific codes that rely on iterative solvers. In this first part of our work, we present both a sequential and a basic MPI parallel implementations of SpMV, aiming to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Junchao Zhang

The sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMxV) is a kernel operation widely used in iterative linear solvers. The same sparse matrix is multiplied by a dense vector repeatedly in these solvers. Matrices with irregular sparsity patterns…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Kadir Akbudak , Enver Kayaaslan , Cevdet Aykanat

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

Sparse matrix computation is crucial in various modern applications, including large-scale graph analytics, deep learning, and recommender systems. The performance of sparse kernels varies greatly depending on the structure of the input…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Francesco Sgherzi , Marco Siracusa , Ivan Fernandez , Adrià Armejach , Miquel Moretó

We propose different implementations of the sparse matrix--dense vector multiplication (\spmv{}) for finite fields and rings $\Zb/m\Zb$. We take advantage of graphic card processors (GPU) and multi-core architectures. Our aim is to improve…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-09-09 Brice Boyer , Jean-Guillaume Dumas , Pascal Giorgi

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMxV) is a kernel operation widely used in iterative linear solvers. The same sparse matrix is multiplied by a dense vector repeatedly in these solvers. Matrices with irregular sparsity patterns make it…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Kadir Akbudak , Enver Kayaaslan , Cevdet Aykanat

Understanding the scalability of parallel programs is crucial for software optimization and hardware architecture design. As HPC hardware is moving towards many-core design, it becomes increasingly difficult for a parallel program to make…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Donglin Chen , Jianbin Fang , Chuanfu Xu , Shizhao Chen , Zheng Wang

Sparse linear algebra kernels play a critical role in numerous applications, covering from exascale scientific simulation to large-scale data analytics. Offloading linear algebra kernels on one GPU will no longer be viable in these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Jieyang Chen , Chenhao Xie , Jesun S Firoz , Jiajia Li , Shuaiwen Leon Song , Kevin Barker , Mark Raugas , Ang Li

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) operations are commonly used in various scientific applications. The performance of the SpMV operation often depends on exploiting regularity patterns in the matrix. Various representations have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Karan Aggarwal , Uday Bondhugula

The sparse matrix-vector product (SpMV) is a fundamental operation in many scientific applications from various fields. The High Performance Computing (HPC) community has therefore continuously invested a lot of effort to provide an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Berenger Bramas , Pavel Kus

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a fundamental operation in machine learning, scientific computing, and graph algorithms. In this paper, we investigate the space, time, and energy efficiency of SpMV using various compressed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Francesco Tosoni , Philip Bille , Valerio Brunacci , Alessio De Angelis , Paolo Ferragina , Giovanni Manzini

Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental kernel across scientific computing and machine learning. While prior work accelerates SpMM using Tensor Cores, no existing sparse kernel exploits the asynchronous features of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jie Liu , Huanzhi Pu , Zhiru Zhang

Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication (SpMV) has become a critical performance bottleneck in the local deployment of sparse Large Language Models (LLMs), where inference predominantly operates on workloads during the decoder phase with a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Junqing Lin , Jingwei Sun , Mingge Lu , Guangzhong Sun

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a fundamental operation with a wide range of applications in scientific computing and artificial intelligence. However, the large scale and sparsity of sparse matrix often make it a performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Chen Yan , Boyu Diao , Hangda Liu , Zhulin An , Yongjun Xu

Accelerators for sparse matrix multiplication are important components in emerging systems. In this paper, we study the main challenges of accelerating Sparse Matrix Multiplication (SpMM). For the situations that data is not stored in the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Pareesa Ameneh Golnari , Sharad Malik