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General sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a fundamental building block for numerous applications such as algebraic multigrid method (AMG), breadth first search and shortest path problem. Compared to other sparse BLAS routines,…

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

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

High-performance sparse matrix-matrix (SpMM) multiplication is paramount for science and industry, as the ever-increasing sizes of data prohibit using dense data structures. Yet, existing hardware, such as Tensor Cores (TC), is ill-suited…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Patrik Okanovic , Grzegorz Kwasniewski , Paolo Sylos Labini , Maciej Besta , Flavio Vella , Torsten Hoefler

Sparse Matrix-Matrix multiplication is a key kernel that has applications in several domains such as scientific computing and graph analysis. Several algorithms have been studied in the past for this foundational kernel. In this paper, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Mehmet Deveci , Christian Trott , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam

Achieving high efficiency with numerical kernels for sparse matrices is of utmost importance, since they are part of many simulation codes and tend to use most of the available compute time and resources. In addition, especially in large…

Performance · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Tobias Scharpff , Klaus Iglberger , Georg Hager , Ulrich Ruede

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a fundamental operation in scientific computing, data analysis, and machine learning. When the data being processed are sensitive, preserving privacy becomes critical, and homomorphic encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yang Gao , Gang Quan , Wujie Wen , Scott Piersall , Qian Lou , Liqiang Wang

The trend towards highly parallel multi-processing is ubiquitous in all modern computer architectures, ranging from handheld devices to large-scale HPC systems; yet many applications are struggling to fully utilise the multiple levels of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-19 Michael Lange , Gerard Gorman , Michele Weiland , Lawrence Mitchell , Xiaohu Guo , James Southern

We present new adaptive format for storing sparse matrices on GPU. We compare it with several other formats including CUSPARSE which is today probably the best choice for processing of sparse matrices on GPU in CUDA. Contrary to CUSPARSE…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Martin Heller , Tomáš Oberhuber

Reducing the computational cost of running large scale neural networks using sparsity has attracted great attention in the deep learning community. While much success has been achieved in reducing FLOP and parameter counts while maintaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Zhiyi Li , Douglas Orr , Valeriu Ohan , Godfrey Da costa , Tom Murray , Adam Sanders , Deniz Beker , Dominic Masters

Generalized Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpGEMM) is a ubiquitous task in various engineering and scientific applications. However, inner product based SpGENN introduces redundant input fetches for mismatched nonzero operands, while…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zhekai Zhang , Hanrui Wang , Song Han , William J. Dally

The exponentially growing model size drives the continued success of deep learning, but it brings prohibitive computation and memory cost. From the algorithm perspective, model sparsification and quantization have been studied to alleviate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Shigang Li , Kazuki Osawa , Torsten Hoefler

Sparse general matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is an important and expensive computation primitive in many real-world applications. Due to SpGEMM's inherent irregularity and the vast diversity of its input matrices, developing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Zhaoyang Du , Yijin Guan , Tianchan Guan , Dimin Niu , Linyong Huang , Hongzhong Zheng , Yuan Xie

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

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

The tremendous increase in the size and heterogeneity of supercomputers makes it very difficult to predict the performance of a scheduling algorithm. Therefore, dynamic solutions, where scheduling decisions are made at runtime have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Olivier Beaumont , Loris Marchal

Important workloads, such as machine learning and graph analytics applications, heavily involve sparse linear algebra operations. These operations use sparse matrix compression as an effective means to avoid storing zeros and performing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Konstantinos Kanellopoulos , Nandita Vijaykumar , Christina Giannoula , Roknoddin Azizi , Skanda Koppula , Nika Mansouri Ghiasi , Taha Shahroodi , Juan Gomez Luna , Onur Mutlu

The advent of memristive devices offers a promising avenue for efficient and scalable analog computing, particularly for linear algebra operations essential in various scientific and engineering applications. This paper investigates the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Jonathan Lin , Frank Barrows , Francesco Caravelli

The performance of biomolecular molecular dynamics simulations has steadily increased on modern high performance computing resources but acceleration of the analysis of the output trajectories has lagged behind so that analyzing simulations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Mahzad Khoshlessan , Ioannis Paraskevakos , Geoffrey C. Fox , Shantenu Jha , Oliver Beckstein

Multiplication of a sparse matrix with another (dense or sparse) matrix is a fundamental operation that captures the computational patterns of many data science applications, including but not limited to graph algorithms, sparsely connected…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Aydın Buluç

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