Roofline: An insightful Visual Performance model for multicore Architectures Page 1 APriL 2009
| voL. 52 | no. 4 | communicAtionS of the Acm 65 conVentional WiSdom in computer architecture …

The recent switch to parallel microprocessors is a milestone in the history of computing.
Industry has laid out a roadmap for multicore designs that preserves the programming …

Several manufacturers have already started to commercialize near-bank Processing-In-
Memory (PIM) architectures, after decades of research efforts. Near-bank PIM architectures …

Abstract The Optimized Sparse Kernel Interface (OSKI) is a collection of low-level primitives
that provide automatically tuned computational kernels on sparse matrices, for use by solver …

Sparse general matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is one of the most fundamental
building blocks in sparse linear solvers, graph processing frameworks and machine learning …

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a crucial computing kernel with widespread
applications in iterative algorithms. Over the past decades, research on SpMV optimization …

This dissertation presents an automated system to generate highly efficient, platform-
adapted implementations of sparse matrix kernels. We show that conventional …

With the extensive use of GPUs in modern supercomputers, accelerating sparse matrix-
vector multiplication (SpMV) on GPUs received much attention in the last couple of decades …

One of the main obstacles to the efficient solution of scientific problems is the problem of
tuning software, both to the available architecture and to the user problem at hand. We …

We improve the performance of sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) on modern cache-
based superscalar machines when the matrix structure consists of multiple, irregularly …