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Largely due to their increased native capacity for numerical intensity and power efficiency, reduced-precision floating-point computing resources, primarily used in artificial intelligence (AI) applications, have expanded at a greater rate…
This work proposes a GPU tensor core approach that encodes the arithmetic reduction of $n$ numbers as a set of chained $m \times m$ matrix multiply accumulate (MMA) operations executed in parallel by GPU tensor cores. The asymptotic running…
Many recent computational accelerators provide non-standard (e.g., reduced precision) arithmetic operations to enhance performance for floating-point matrix multiplication. Unfortunately, the properties of these accelerators are not widely…
Sparse Matrix-matrix Multiplication (SpMM) and Sampled Dense-dense Matrix Multiplication (SDDMM) are important sparse operators in scientific computing and deep learning. Tensor Core Units (TCUs) enhance modern accelerators with superior…
Modern graphics computing units (GPUs) are designed and optimized to perform highly parallel numerical calculations. This parallelism has enabled (and promises) significant advantages, both in terms of energy performance and calculation. In…
General matrix-matrix multiplication (GEMM) is a cornerstone of AI computations, making tensor processing engines (TPEs) increasingly critical in GPUs and domain-specific architectures. Existing architectures primarily optimize dataflow or…
Sparse general matrix-matrix multiplication (spGEMM) is an essential component in many scientific and data analytics applications. However, the sparsity pattern of the input matrices and the interaction of their patterns make spGEMM…
Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is an essential tool in scientific and engineering computation. The increasing demand for mixed-precision FFT has made it possible to utilize half-precision floating-point (FP16) arithmetic for faster speed and…
To respond to the need of efficient training and inference of deep neural networks, a plethora of domain-specific hardware architectures have been introduced, such as Google Tensor Processing Units and NVIDIA Tensor Cores. A common feature…
Recent studies from several hyperscalars pinpoint to embedding layers as the most memory-intensive deep learning (DL) algorithm being deployed in today's datacenters. This paper addresses the memory capacity and bandwidth challenges of…
Sparse matrix multiplication operators (i.e., SpMM and SDDMM) are widely used in deep learning and scientific computing. Modern accelerators are commonly equipped with Tensor Core Units (TCUs) and CUDA cores to accelerate sparse operators.…
Many architects believe that major improvements in cost-energy-performance must now come from domain-specific hardware. This paper evaluates a custom ASIC---called a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)---deployed in datacenters since 2015 that…
Computationally intensive deep neural networks (DNNs) are well-suited to run on GPUs, but newly developed algorithms usually require the heavily optimized DNN routines to work efficiently, and this problem could be even more difficult for…
Most research in quantum computing today is performed against simulations of quantum computers rather than true quantum computers. Simulating a quantum computer entails implementing all of the unitary operators corresponding to the quantum…
The efficacy of deep learning has resulted in its use in a growing number of applications. The Volta graphics processor unit (GPU) architecture from NVIDIA introduced a specialized functional unit, the "tensor core", that helps meet the…
Efficient mixed-precision matrix multiply accumulate (MMA) operations are critical for accelerating deep learning workloads on GPGPUs. However, existing open-source dot product implementations for Tensor Cores rely on discrete arithmetic…
This report presents some early results on code generation targeting tensor cores on NVIDIA GPUs using the MLIR compiler infrastructure. The state-of-the-art in high-performance deep learning today is primarily driven by manually optimized…
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have seen extensive application in domains such as social networks, bioinformatics, and recommendation systems. However, the irregularity and sparsity of graph data challenge traditional computing methods, which…
Matrix-multiply-accumulate (MMA) units, or tensor cores, are now widespread across modern computing architectures. Yet, their use for particle-grid operators remains limited. In implicit particle methods, mass-matrix assembly is a…
Matrix-accelerated stencil computation is a hot research topic, yet its application to three-dimensional (3D) high-order stencils and HPC remains underexplored. With the emergence of matrix units on multicore CPUs, we analyze matrix-based…