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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,…

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Sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a widely used kernel in various graph, scientific computing and machine learning algorithms. It is well known that SpGEMM is a memory-bound operation, and its peak performance is expected to…

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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

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

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…

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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

Structured sparsity has been proposed as an efficient way to prune the complexity of modern Machine Learning (ML) applications and to simplify the handling of sparse data in hardware. The acceleration of ML models - for both training and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-14 V. Titopoulos , K. Alexandridis , C. Peltekis , C. Nicopoulos , G. Dimitrakopoulos

The new generation of machine learning processors have evolved from multi-core and parallel architectures that were designed to efficiently implement matrix-vector-multiplications (MVMs). This is because at the fundamental level, neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Nazreen P. M. , Shantanu Chakrabartty , Chetan Singh Thakur

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

Sparse matrices and linear algebra are at the heart of scientific simulations. More than 70 sparse matrix storage formats have been developed over the years, targeting a wide range of hardware architectures and matrix types. Each format is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Chris Stylianou , Michele Weiland

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 (SpMV) is a fundamental operation with a wide range of applications in scientific computing and artificial intelligence. However, the large scale and sparsity of sparse matrix often make it a performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Chen Yan , Boyu Diao , Hangda Liu , Zhulin An , Yongjun Xu

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

Kernel-based methods for support vector machines (SVM) have shown highly advantageous performance in various applications. However, they may incur prohibitive computational costs for large-scale sample datasets. Therefore, data reduction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Shenglong Zhou

We propose a fine-grained hypergraph model for sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM), a key computational kernel in scientific computing and data analysis whose performance is often communication bound. This model correctly describes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Grey Ballard , Alex Druinsky , Nicholas Knight , Oded Schwartz

Sparse general matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a fundamental building block for many real-world applications. Since SpGEMM is a well-known memory-bounded application with vast and irregular memory accesses, considering the memory access…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Zhaoyang Du , Yijin Guan , Tianchan Guan , Dimin Niu , Hongzhong Zheng , Yuan Xie

Achieving high performance for sparse applications is challenging due to irregular access patterns and weak locality. These properties preclude many static optimizations and degrade cache performance on traditional systems. To address these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Thomas B. Rolinger , Christopher D. Krieger

Field Programmable Gate Arrays generate algorithmic specific architectures that improve the code's FLOP per watt ratio. Such devices are re-gaining interest due to the rise of new tools that facilitate their programming, such as OmpSs. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Guillermo Oyarzun , Daniel Peyrolon , Carlos Alvarez , Xavier Martorell

Fueled by the ability to mine real-world graph data, GNN applications have experienced phenomenal growth. Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a critical operator in GNNs. However, existing SpMM designs for GNNs struggle to adapt…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Lixing Zhang , Guanhua Ye , Hongzheng Li , Shigang Li , Yingxia Shao

Sparse matrix-vector products (SpMVs) are a bottleneck in many scientific codes. Due to the heavy strain on the main memory interface from loading the sparse matrix and the possibly irregular memory access pattern, SpMV typically exhibits…

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