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Fast Linear Algebra on GPU

POLOK Lukáš and SMRŽ Pavel. Fast Linear Algebra on GPU. In: IEEE conference proceedings. Liverpool: IEEE Computer Society, 2012, p. 6. ISBN 978-0-7695-4749-7.
Czech title
Rychlá lineární algebra na GPU
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
Polok Lukáš, Ing. (DCGM FIT BUT)
Smrž Pavel, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (DCGM FIT BUT)
Keywords

GPU; parallel reduction; linear algebra; BLAS; OpenCL; CUDA

Abstract

GPUs have been successfully used for acceleration of many mathematical functions and libraries. A common limitation of those libraries is the minimal size of primitives being handled, in order to achieve a significant speedup compared to their CPU versions. The minimal size requirement can prove prohibitive for many applications. It can be loosened by batching operations in order to have sufficient amount of data to perform the calculation maximally efficiently on the GPU. A fast OpenCL implementation of two basic vector functions - vector reduction and vector scaling - is described in this paper. Its performance is analyzed by running benchmarks on two of the most common GPUs in use - Tesla and Fermi GPUs from NVIDIA. Reported experimental results show that our implementation significantly outperforms the current state-of-the-art GPU-based basic linear algebra library CUBLAS.

Published
2012
Pages
6
Proceedings
IEEE conference proceedings
Conference
The 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, Liverpool, GB
ISBN
978-0-7695-4749-7
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
Place
Liverpool, GB
BibTeX 
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB10039,
   author = "Luk\'{a}\v{s} Polok and Pavel Smr\v{z}",
   title = "Fast Linear Algebra on GPU",
   pages = 6,
   booktitle = "IEEE conference proceedings",
   year = 2012,
   location = "Liverpool, GB",
   publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
   ISBN = "978-0-7695-4749-7",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/10039"
}
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