Publication detail

Fast Sparse Matrix Multiplication on GPU

POLOK, L. ILA, V. SMRŽ, P.

Original Title

Fast Sparse Matrix Multiplication on GPU

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Sparse matrix multiplication is an important algorithm in a wide variety of problems, including graph algorithms, simulations and linear solving to name a few. Yet, there are but a few works related to acceleration of sparse matrix multiplication on a GPU. We present a fast, novel algorithm for sparse matrix multiplication, outperforming the previous algorithm on GPU up to 3x and CPU up to 30x. The principal improvements include more efficient load balancing strategy, and a faster sorting algorithm. The main contribution is design and implementation of efficient sparse matrix multiplication algorithm and extending it to sparse block matrices, which is to our best knowledge the first implementation of this kind.

Keywords

parallel sparse matrix multiplication, parallel linear algebra, matrix-matrix multiplication, GPGPU

Authors

POLOK, L.; ILA, V.; SMRŽ, P.

RIV year

2015

Released

11. 3. 2015

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Location

Alexandria, Virginia

ISBN

978-1-5108-0101-1

Book

Proceedings of the 23rd High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC'15)

Pages from

1

Pages to

8

Pages count

8

URL

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2872604

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT119833,
  author="Lukáš {Polok} and Viorela Simona {Ila} and Pavel {Smrž}",
  title="Fast Sparse Matrix Multiplication on GPU",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 23rd High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC'15)",
  year="2015",
  pages="1--8",
  publisher="Association for Computing Machinery",
  address="Alexandria, Virginia",
  isbn="978-1-5108-0101-1",
  url="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2872604"
}