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Sparse matrix multiplication is traditionally performed in memory and scales to large matrices using the distributed memory of multiple nodes. In contrast, we scale sparse matrix multiplication beyond memory capacity by implementing sparse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Da Zheng , Disa Mhembere , Vince Lyzinski , Joshua Vogelstein , Carey E. Priebe , Randal Burns

Sparse data structures are commonly used in neural networks to reduce the memory footprint. These data structures are compact but cause irregularities such as random memory accesses, which prevent efficient use of the memory hierarchy. GPUs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hossein Albakri , Kazem Cheshmi

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

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-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-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-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

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

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 Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) is a critical kernel in high-performance computing and deep learning. While modern architectures like ARM's Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) introduce dedicated hardware for matrix operations, existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Chencheng Deng , Weiling Yang , Jianbin Fang , Dezun Dong

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

Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication (SpMV) is the cornerstone in many iterative workloads, including large-scale graph analytics and sparse iterative solvers. Accelerating SpMV on real-world graphs remains challenging due to highly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Qi Zhang , Zhengan Yao , Zhenglu Jiang , Zan-Bo Zhang

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

We present a novel approach for accelerating convolutions during inference for CPU-based architectures. The most common method of computation involves packing the image into the columns of a matrix (im2col) and performing general matrix…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Amir Ofir , Gil Ben-Artzi

HipMCL is a high-performance distributed memory implementation of the popular Markov Cluster Algorithm (MCL) and can cluster large-scale networks within hours using a few thousand CPU-equipped nodes. It relies on sparse matrix computations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Oguz Selvitopi , Md Taufique Hussain , Ariful Azad , Aydın Buluç

Sparse compiler is a promising solution for sparse tensor algebra optimization. In compiler implementation, reduction in sparse-dense hybrid algebra plays a key role in performance. Though GPU provides various reduction semantics that can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Genghan Zhang , Yuetong Zhao , Yanting Tao , Zhongming Yu , Guohao Dai , Sitao Huang , Yuan Wen , Pavlos Petoumenos , Yu Wang

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

This work focuses on accelerating the multiplication of a dense random matrix with a (fixed) sparse matrix, which is frequently used in sketching algorithms. We develop a novel scheme that takes advantage of blocking and recomputation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Tianyu Liang , Riley Murray , Aydın Buluç , James Demmel

Although the matrix multiplication plays a vital role in computational linear algebra, there are few efficient solutions for matrix multiplication of the near-sparse matrices. The Sparse Approximate Matrix Multiply (SpAMM) is one of the…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xiaoyan Liu , Yi Liu , Ming Dun , Bohong Yin , Hailong Yang , Zhongzhi Luan , Depei Qian

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are recently getting much attention in bioinformatics and chemoinformatics as a state-of-the-art machine learning approach with high accuracy. GCNs process convolutional operations along with graph…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Yusuke Nagasaka , Akira Nukada , Ryosuke Kojima , Satoshi Matsuoka