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Sparse tensors appear in many large-scale applications with multidimensional and sparse data. While multidimensional sparse data often need to be processed on manycore processors, attempts to develop highly-optimized GPU-based…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Bangtian Liu , Chengyao Wen , Anand D. Sarwate , Maryam Mehri Dehnavi

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 2022-04-05 Christina Giannoula , Ivan Fernandez , Juan Gómez-Luna , Nectarios Koziris , Georgios Goumas , Onur Mutlu

A new format for storing sparse matrices is proposed for efficient sparse matrix-vector (SpMV) product calculation on modern graphics processing units (GPUs). This format extends the standard compressed row storage (CRS) format and can be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 Zbigniew Koza , Maciej Matyka , Sebastian Szkoda , Łukasz Mirosław

Modern GPUs incorporate specialized matrix units such as Tensor Cores to accelerate GEMM operations, which are central to deep learning workloads. However, existing matrix unit designs are tightly coupled to the SIMT core, restricting…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hansung Kim , Ruohan Richard Yan , Joshua You , Tieliang Vamber Yang , Yakun Sophia Shao

Deep learning hardware achieves high throughput and low power consumption by reducing computing precision and specializing in matrix multiplication. For machine learning inference, fixed-point value computation is commonplace, where the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hiroyuki Ootomo , Katsuhisa Ozaki , Rio Yokota

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 present a parallel scan (prefix sum) algorithm in the Tensor Core Unit (TCU) model of computation. The TCU model assumes that multiplication between two square matrices of constant size $s$ is a basic operation. In the $(s^2, \ell)$-TCU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Anastasios Zouzias , William F. McColl

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) multiplies a sparse matrix with a dense vector. SpMV plays a crucial role in many applications, from graph analytics to deep learning. The random memory accesses of the sparse matrix make…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Linghao Song , Yuze Chi , Licheng Guo , Jason Cong

The NVIDIA Volta GPU microarchitecture introduces a specialized unit, called "Tensor Core" that performs one matrix-multiply-and-accumulate on 4x4 matrices per clock cycle. The NVIDIA Tesla V100 accelerator, featuring the Volta…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Stefano Markidis , Steven Wei Der Chien , Erwin Laure , Ivy Bo Peng , Jeffrey S. Vetter

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a crucial computing kernel with widespread applications in iterative algorithms. Over the past decades, research on SpMV optimization has made remarkable strides, giving rise to various…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jianhua Gao , Bingjie Liu , Weixing Ji , Hua Huang

In this paper, we demonstrate a compiler that can optimize sparse and recurrent neural networks, both of which are currently outside of the scope of existing neural network compilers (sparse neural networks here stand for networks that can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Riyadh Baghdadi , Abdelkader Nadir Debbagh , Kamel Abdous , Fatima Zohra Benhamida , Alex Renda , Jonathan Elliott Frankle , Michael Carbin , Saman Amarasinghe

Sparse matrix-dense matrix multiplication (SpMM) is a critical kernel in scientific computing, graph analytics, and machine learning, whose performance is often constrained by memory bandwidth. In this work, we investigate the applicability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Matthew Qian , Yahia Ramadan , Suhita Anubha , Ariful Azad

Sparse matrix multiplication is an important component of linear algebra computations. Implementing sparse matrix multiplication on an associative processor (AP) enables high level of parallelism, where a row of one matrix is multiplied in…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-05-23 L. Yavits , A. Morad , R. Ginosar

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is one of the most important kernels in high-performance computing (HPC), yet SpMV normally suffers from ill performance on many devices. Due to ill performance, SpMV normally requires special care…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Phillip Allen Lane , Joshua Dennis Booth

In this paper, we use graphics processing units(GPU) to accelerate sparse and arbitrary structured neural networks. Sparse networks have nodes in the network that are not fully connected with nodes in preceding and following layers, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Aavaas Gajurel , Sushil J. Louis , Frederick C Harris

Sparse Matrix-Vector multiplication (SpMV) is an essential computational kernel in many application scenarios. Tens of sparse matrix formats and implementations have been proposed to compress the memory storage and speed up SpMV…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Zhen Du , Jiajia Li , Yinshan Wang , Xueqi Li , Guangming Tan , Ninghui Sun

Sparse general matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a critical operation in many applications. Current multithreaded implementations are based on Gustavson's algorithm and often perform poorly on large matrices due to limited cache…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Jordi Wolfson-Pou , Jan Laukemann , Fabrizio Petrini

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become a leading technique for real-time neural rendering and 3D scene reconstruction, but its rendering cost remains too high for many latency-sensitive scenarios. In particular, the rasterization stage in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Sheng Li , Yang Sui , Yue Wu , Zhuoran Song , Bo Yuan , Xulong Tang , Yue Dai

In the context of cryptanalysis, computing discrete logarithms in large cyclic groups using index-calculus-based methods, such as the number field sieve or the function field sieve, requires solving large sparse systems of linear equations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-12-05 Hamza Jeljeli

We present an optimized single-precision implementation of the Sparse Approximate Matrix Multiply (\SpAMM{}) [M. Challacombe and N. Bock, arXiv {\bf 1011.3534} (2010)], a fast algorithm for matrix-matrix multiplication for matrices with…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-09-05 Nicolas Bock , Matt Challacombe