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Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is an essential linear algebra operation that dominates the computing cost in many scientific applications. Due to providing massive parallelism and high memory bandwidth, GPUs are commonly used to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Mina Ashoury , Mohammad Loni , Farshad Khunjush , Masoud Daneshtalab

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is crucial in computational science, engineering, and machine learning. Despite substantial efforts to improve SpMV performance on GPUs through various techniques, issues related to data locality,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xing Cong , Fukai Sun , Yifan Chen , Chenhao Xie* , Yi Liu , Depei Qian

Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication (SpMV) is a critical operation for the iterative solver of Finite Element Methods on computer simulation. Since the SpMV operation is a memory-bound algorithm, the efficiency of data movements heavily…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Chong Chen

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

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

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 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

Sparse matrix-vector and matrix-matrix multiplication (SpMV and SpMM) are fundamental in both conventional (graph analytics, scientific computing) and emerging (sparse DNN, GNN) domains. Workload-balancing and parallel-reduction are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Guyue Huang , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie

Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental operation in graph computing and analytics. However, the irregularity of real-world graphs poses significant challenges to achieving efficient SpMM operation for graph data on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zhonggen Li , Xiangyu Ke , Yifan Zhu , Yunjun Gao , Yaofeng Tu

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

General-purpose Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental kernel in scientific computing and deep learning. The emergence of new matrix computation units such as Tensor Cores (TCs) brings more opportunities for SpMM…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Haisha Zhao , San Li , Jiaheng Wang , Chunbao Zhou , Jue Wang , Zhikuang Xin , Shunde Li , Zhiqiang Liang , Zhijie Pan , Fang Liu , Yan Zeng , Yangang Wang , Xuebin Chi

We design and develop a work-efficient multithreaded algorithm for sparse matrix-sparse vector multiplication (SpMSpV) where the matrix, the input vector, and the output vector are all sparse. SpMSpV is an important primitive in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Ariful Azad , Aydin Buluc

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

Sparse matrices and linear algebra are at the heart of scientific simulations. More than 70 sparse matrix storage formats have been developed over the years, targeting a wide range of hardware architectures and matrix types. Each format is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Chris Stylianou , Michele Weiland

Sparse matrices, as prevalent primitive of various scientific computing algorithms, persist as a bottleneck in processing. A skew-symmetric matrix flips signs of symmetric pairs in a symmetric matrix. Our work, Parallel 3-Way Banded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Selin Yildirim , Murat Manguoglu

We consider the problem of developing an efficient multi-threaded implementation of the matrix-vector multiplication algorithm for sparse matrices with structural symmetry. Matrices are stored using the compressed sparse row-column format…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Vicente H. F. Batista , George O. Ainsworth , Fernando L. B. Ribeiro

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

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

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

We implement two novel algorithms for sparse-matrix dense-matrix multiplication (SpMM) on the GPU. Our algorithms expect the sparse input in the popular compressed-sparse-row (CSR) format and thus do not require expensive format conversion.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Carl Yang , Aydin Buluc , John D. Owens