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Reducing the memory footprint of neural networks is a crucial prerequisite for deploying them in small and low-cost embedded devices. Network parameters can often be reduced significantly through pruning. We discuss how to best represent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Elias Trommer , Bernd Waschneck , Akash Kumar

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

We present a sparse linear system solver that is based on a multifrontal variant of Gaussian elimination, and exploits low-rank approximation of the resulting dense frontal matrices. We use hierarchically semiseparable (HSS) matrices, which…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Pieter Ghysels , Xiaoye S. Li , Francois-Henry Rouet , Samuel Williams , Artem Napov

The parallel algorithm for loading large sparse matrices from files into distributed memories of high performance computing (HPC) systems is presented. This algorithm was designed specially for matrices stored in files in the space-effcient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Daniel Langr , Ivan Šimeček , Pavel Tvrdík

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

Top-K SpMV is a key component of similarity-search on sparse embeddings. This sparse workload does not perform well on general-purpose NUMA systems that employ traditional caching strategies. Instead, modern FPGA accelerator cards have a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Alberto Parravicini , Luca Giuseppe Cellamare , Marco Siracusa , Marco Domenico Santambrogio

We investigate the energy efficiency of a library designed for parallel computations with sparse matrices. The library leverages high-performance, energy-efficient Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) accelerators to enable large-scale scientific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Massimo Bernaschi , Alessandro Celestini , Pasqua D'Ambra , Giorgio Richelli

Scientific computing in the exascale era demands increased computational power to solve complex problems across various domains. With the rise of heterogeneous computing architectures the need for vendor-agnostic, performance portability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Johansell Villalobos , Josef Ruzicka , Silvio Rizzi

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

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

Many problems in scientific and engineering applications contain sparse matrices or graphs as main input objects, e.g. numerical simulations on meshes. Large inputs are abundant these days and require parallel processing for memory size and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Charilaos Tzovas , Maria Predari , Henning Meyerhenke

Multiplication of a sparse matrix to a dense matrix (SpDM) is widely used in many areas like scientific computing and machine learning. However, existing works under-look the performance optimization of SpDM on modern many-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Shaohuai Shi , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

Runtime characteristics of sparse matrix computations and related processes may be often improved by reducing memory footprints of involved matrices. Such a reduction can be usually achieved when matrices are processed in a block-wise…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Daniel Langr

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 is often employed in many data-analytic workloads in which low latency and high throughput are more valuable than exact numerical convergence. FPGAs provide quick execution times while offering precise…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Alberto Parravicini , Francesco Sgherzi , Marco D. Santambrogio

The A64FX CPU powers the current number one supercomputer on the Top500 list. Although it is a traditional cache-based multicore processor, its peak performance and memory bandwidth rival accelerator devices. Generating efficient code for…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Christie L. Alappat , Jan Laukemann , Thomas Gruber , Georg Hager , Gerhard Wellein , Nils Meyer , Tilo Wettig

Nowadays, several industrial applications are being ported to parallel architectures. In fact, these platforms allow acquire more performance for system modelling and simulation. In the electric machines area, there are many problems which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-10-25 Antonio Wendell De Oliveira Rodrigues , Frédéric Guyomarch , Yvonnick Le Menach , Jean-Luc Dekeyser

Despite the importance of sparse matrices in numerous fields of science, software implementations remain difficult to use for non-expert users, generally requiring the understanding of underlying details of the chosen sparse matrix storage…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Conrad Sanderson , Ryan Curtin

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

Reservoir computing systems rely on the recurrent multiplication of a very large, sparse, fixed matrix. We argue that direct spatial implementation of these fixed matrices minimizes the work performed in the computation, and allows for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Matthew Denton , Herman Schmit