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The well-known Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithm is the most commonly used method for local sequence alignments. However, SW is very computationally demanding for large protein databases. There exist several implementations that take advantage…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Enzo Rucci , Carlos Garcia , Guillermo Botella , Armando De Giusti , Marcelo Naiouf , Manuel Prieto-Matias

Efficient execution of SPARQL queries over large RDF datasets is a topic of considerable interest due to increased use of RDF to encode data. Most of this work has followed either relational or graph-based approaches. In this paper, we…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Yuedan Chen , M. Tamer Özsu , Guoqing Xiao , Zhuo Tang , Kenli Li

We present a novel family of language model (LM) estimation techniques named Sparse Non-negative Matrix (SNM) estimation. A first set of experiments empirically evaluating it on the One Billion Word Benchmark shows that SNM $n$-gram LMs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Noam Shazeer , Joris Pelemans , Ciprian Chelba

Spiking Neural Network (SNN) inference has a clear potential for high energy efficiency as computation is triggered by events. However, the inherent sparsity of events poses challenges for conventional computing systems, driving the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Simone Manoni , Paul Scheffler , Luca Zanatta , Andrea Acquaviva , Luca Benini , Andrea Bartolini

High Bandwidth Memory with Processing-in-Memory (HBM-PIM) offers an opportunity to reduce data movement by executing computation directly inside memory, but current commercial platforms expose limited instruction sets and require…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Emanuele Venieri , Simone Manoni , Alberto Florian , Jaehyun Park , Kyomin Sohn , Andrea Bartolini

Machine learning (ML) models are widely used in many important domains. For efficiently processing these computational- and memory-intensive applications, tensors of these over-parameterized models are compressed by leveraging sparsity,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Shail Dave , Riyadh Baghdadi , Tony Nowatzki , Sasikanth Avancha , Aviral Shrivastava , Baoxin Li

Sparse tensor algebra is challenging to efficiently parallelize due to the irregular, data-dependent, and potentially skewed structure of sparse computation. We propose the first partitioning algorithm that provably load balances the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Atharva Chougule , Alexander J Root , Rubens Lacouture , Bobby Yan , Rohan Yadav , Fredrik Kjolstad

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (spMVM) is the most time-consuming kernel in many numerical algorithms and has been studied extensively on all modern processor and accelerator architectures. However, the optimal sparse matrix data…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Moritz Kreutzer , Georg Hager , Gerhard Wellein , Holger Fehske , Alan R. Bishop

Despite numerous efforts for optimizing the performance of Sparse Matrix and Vector Multiplication (SpMV) on modern hardware architectures, few works are done to its sparse counterpart, Sparse Matrix and Sparse Vector Multiplication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Min Li , Yulong Ao , Chao Yang

Linear-scaling electronic-structure techniques, also called O(N) techniques, rely heavily on the multiplication of sparse matrices, where the sparsity arises from spatial cut-offs. In order to treat very large systems, the calculations must…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 D. R. Bowler , T. Miyazaki , M. J. Gillan

This paper develops a memory-efficient approach for Sequential Pattern Mining (SPM), a fundamental topic in knowledge discovery that faces a well-known memory bottleneck for large data sets. Our methodology involves a novel hybrid trie data…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Amin Hosseininasab , Willem-Jan van Hoeve , Andre A. Cire

The deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs) in privacy-sensitive environments is constrained by computational overheads in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). This paper explores unstructured sparsity in FHE matrix multiplication schemes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Aidan Ferguson , Perry Gibson , Lara D'Agata , Parker McLeod , Ferhat Yaman , Amitabh Das , Ian Colbert , José Cano

A new generation of manycore processors is on the rise that offers dozens and more cores on a chip and, in a sense, fuses host processor and accelerator. In this paper we target the efficient training of generalized linear models on these…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Eliza Wszola , Celestine Mendler-Dünner , Martin Jaggi , Markus Püschel

The A64FX CPU powers the current number one supercomputer on the Top500 list. Although it is a traditional cache-based multicore processor, its peak performance and memory bandwidth rival accelerator devices. Generating efficient code for…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Christie L. Alappat , Jan Laukemann , Thomas Gruber , Georg Hager , Gerhard Wellein , Nils Meyer , Tilo Wettig

Applying machine learning techniques to the quickly growing data in science and industry requires highly-scalable algorithms. Large datasets are most commonly processed "data parallel" distributed across many nodes. Each node's contribution…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Cedric Renggli , Saleh Ashkboos , Mehdi Aghagolzadeh , Dan Alistarh , Torsten Hoefler

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

We introduce Stream-K, a work-centric parallelization of matrix multiplication (GEMM) and related computations in dense linear algebra. Whereas contemporary decompositions are primarily tile-based, our method operates by partitioning an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Muhammad Osama , Duane Merrill , Cris Cecka , Michael Garland , John D. Owens

The SpMV kernel is characterized by high performance variation per input matrix and computing platform. While GPUs were considered State-of-the-Art for SpMV, with the emergence of advanced multicore CPUs and low-power FPGA accelerators, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Panagiotis Mpakos , Dimitrios Galanopoulos , Petros Anastasiadis , Nikela Papadopoulou , Nectarios Koziris , Georgios Goumas

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

Contemporary Deep Neural Network (DNN) contains millions of synaptic connections with tens to hundreds of layers. The large computation and memory requirements pose a challenge to the hardware design. In this work, we leverage the intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Jingyang Zhu , Jingbo Jiang , Xizi Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui