Date of Award

12-16-2015

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Computer Science

First Advisor

Sushil K. Prasad

Second Advisor

Yingshu Li

Third Advisor

Yanqing Zhang

Abstract

Sparse Matrix-Matrix multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental operation over irregular data, which is widely used in graph algorithms, such as finding minimum spanning trees and shortest paths. In this work, we present a hybrid CPU and GPU-based parallel SpMM algorithm to improve the performance of SpMM. First, we improve data locality by element-wise multiplication. Second, we utilize the ordered property of row indices for partial sorting instead of full sorting of all triples according to row and column indices. Finally, through a hybrid CPU-GPU approach using two level pipelining technique, our algorithm is able to better exploit a heterogeneous system. Compared with the state-of-the-art SpMM methods in cuSPARSE and CUSP libraries, our approach achieves an average of 1.6x and 2.9x speedup separately on the nine representative matrices from University of Florida sparse matrix collection.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.57709/7906679

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