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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 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

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (spMVM) is the dominant operation in many sparse solvers. We investigate performance properties of spMVM with matrices of various sparsity patterns on the nVidia "Fermi" class of GPGPUs. A new "padded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Moritz Kreutzer , Georg Hager , Gerhard Wellein , Holger Fehske , Achim Basermann , Alan R. Bishop

We introduce an algorithm for efficiently representing convolution with zero-padding and stride as a sparse transformation matrix, applied to a vectorized input through sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV). We provide a theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zan Chaudhry

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

The SpMV kernel is characterized by high performance variation per input matrix and computing platform. While GPUs were considered State-of-the-Art for SpMV, with the emergence of advanced multicore CPUs and low-power FPGA accelerators, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Panagiotis Mpakos , Dimitrios Galanopoulos , Petros Anastasiadis , Nikela Papadopoulou , Nectarios Koziris , Georgios Goumas

Sparse computations frequently appear in scientific simulations and the performance of these simulations rely heavily on the optimization of the sparse codes. The compact data structures and irregular computation patterns in sparse matrix…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Zachary Cetinic , Kazem Cheshmi , Maryam Mehri Dehnavi

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is the core operation in many common network and graph analytics, but poor performance of the SpMV kernel handicaps these applications. This work quantifies the effect of matrix structure on SpMV…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Daniel Kimball , Elizabeth Michel , Paul Keltcher , Michael M. Wolf

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a fundamental operation in machine learning, scientific computing, and graph algorithms. In this paper, we investigate the space, time, and energy efficiency of SpMV using various compressed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Francesco Tosoni , Philip Bille , Valerio Brunacci , Alessio De Angelis , Paolo Ferragina , Giovanni Manzini

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

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 peak performance of any SpMV depends primarily on the available memory bandwidth and its effective use. GPUs, ASICs, and new FPGAs have higher and higher bandwidth; however, for large scale and highly sparse matrices, SpMV is still a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Paolo D'Alberto , Abhishek Jain , Ismail Bustany , Henri Fraisse , Mansimran Benipal

We propose a new sparse matrix format, PackSELL, designed to support diverse data representations and enable efficient sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) on GPUs. Building on sliced ELLPACK (SELL), PackSELL incorporates delta…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Kengo Suzuki , Takeshi Iwashita

The sparse matrix/vector product (SpMV) is a fundamental operation in scientific computing. Having access to an efficient SpMV implementation is therefore critical, if not mandatory, to solve challenging numerical problems. The ARM-based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Evann Regnault , Berenger Bramas

The sparse matrix-vector multiply (SpMV) operation is a key computational kernel in many simulations and linear solvers. The large communication requirements associated with a reference implementation of a parallel SpMV result in poor…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Amanda Bienz , William D. Gropp , Luke N. Olson

The Sparse GEneral Matrix-Matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) $C = A \times B$ is a fundamental routine extensively used in domains like machine learning or graph analytics. Despite its relevance, the efficient execution of SpGEMM on vector…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Valentin Le Fèvre , Marc Casas

Generalized sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (or SpGEMM) is a key primitive for many high performance graph algorithms as well as for some linear solvers, such as algebraic multigrid. Here we show that SpGEMM also yields efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Aydin Buluc , John Gilbert

Sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a widely used kernel in various graph, scientific computing and machine learning algorithms. In this paper, we consider SpGEMMs performed on hundreds of thousands of processors generating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Md Taufique Hussain , Oguz Selvitopi , Aydin Buluç , Ariful Azad

Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental computation in graph analytics, scientific simulation, and sparse deep learning workloads. However, the extreme irregularity of real-world sparse matrices prevents existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Aiying Li , Jingwei Sun , Han Li , Wence Ji , Guangzhong Sun

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