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Sparse matrix-vector products (SpMVs) are a bottleneck in many scientific codes. Due to the heavy strain on the main memory interface from loading the sparse matrix and the possibly irregular memory access pattern, SpMV typically exhibits…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Dane C. Lacey , Christie L. Alappat , Florian Lange , Georg Hager , Holger Fehske , Gerhard Wellein

Sparse linear iterative solvers are essential for many large-scale simulations. Much of the runtime of these solvers is often spent in the implicit evaluation of matrix polynomials via a sequence of sparse matrix-vector products. A variety…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Christie Alappat , Jonas Thies , Georg Hager , Holger Fehske , Gerhard Wellein

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

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

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

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

The symmetric sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SymmSpMV) is an important building block for many numerical linear algebra kernel operations or graph traversal applications. Parallelizing SymmSpMV on today's multicore platforms with up…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Christie L. Alappat , Georg Hager , Olaf Schenk , Jonas Thies , Achim Basermann , Alan R. Bishop , Holger Fehske , Gerhard Wellein

This paper presents a low-overhead optimizer for the ubiquitous sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) kernel. Architectural diversity among different processors together with structural diversity among different sparse matrices lead to…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Nektarios Koziris

Tensor accelerators have gained popularity because they provide a cheap and efficient solution for speeding up computational-expensive tasks in Deep Learning and, more recently, in other Scientific Computing applications. However, since…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Paolo Sylos Labini , Massimo Bernaschi , Francesco Silvestri , Flavio Vella

The matrices used in many computational settings are naturally sparse, holding a small percentage of nonzero elements. Storing such matrices in specialized sparse formats enables algorithms that avoid wasting computation on zeros,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Pratyush Das , Amirhossein Basareh , Adhitha Dias , Artem Pelenitsyn , Kirshanthan Sundararajah , Milind Kulkarni , Ben Delaware

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

The sparse matrix-vector (SpMV) multiplication is an important computational kernel, but it is notoriously difficult to execute efficiently. This paper investigates algorithm performance for unstructured sparse matrices, which are more…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Kobe Bergmans , Karl Meerbergen , Raf Vandebril

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

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

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

Iterative solutions of sparse linear systems and sparse eigenvalue problems have a fundamental role in vital fields of scientific research and engineering. The crucial computing kernel for such iterative solutions is the multiplication of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Thaha Mohammed , Rashid Mehmood

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-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a central building block for scientific software and graph applications. Recently, heterogeneous processors composed of different types of cores attracted much attention because of their…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Weifeng Liu , Brian Vinter

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

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
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