[Numpy-discussion] Fwd: [SIAM-CSE] pOSKI - Autotuner for parallel sparse-matrix-vector

Fernando Perez fperez.net at gmail.com
Sat May 5 15:43:32 EDT 2012


Interesting, given the recent discussion on sparsity...

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From: James Demmel <demmel at eecs.berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:03 PM
Subject: [SIAM-CSE] pOSKI - Autotuner for parallel
sparse-matrix-vector multiplication
To: siam-cse at siam.org


We are pleased to announce the first public release of pOSKI,
the Parallel Optimized Sparse Kernel Interface. pOSKI automatically
produces high performance implementations of Sparse-Matrix-Vector
multiplication (SpMV) and related operations. pOSKI targets current
multicore CPU platforms, and is an extension of prior work on OSKI,
which targeted single core processors. Both pOSKI and OSKI
use autotuning, which means searching a design space of sparse
matrix data structures and algorithms that depend on the
matrix properties (eg sparsity pattern and symmetry), the operation
to be performed (A*x, transpose(A)*x, etc.), and the target platform.

For example, on an Intel Jaketown, with 6 cores and 12 threads, pOSKI
gets a speedup of 4.8x over 1 core, and is 1.6x faster than
Intel MKL's dcsrmv, both on the matrix wikipedia-2007 from the
University of Florida collection.

pOSKI is freely available under a BSD license at
    bebop.cs.berkeley.edu/poski
which also includes all the documentation, and a mailing list for
asking questions.

pOSKI is based on contributions from many people, and was produced by
BEBOP, the Berkeley Benchmarking and OPtimization Group (bebop.cs.berkeley.edu).

Regards,
Jim Demmel and Jong-Ho Byun
UC Berkeley

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