Optimizing sparse data structures for matrix-vector multiply

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 115-131

  Guo, D ^a   Gropp, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

data stream; prefetch; sparse matrix vector multiply; streamed blocked compressed row storage format; streamed compressed row storage format

Indexed keywords

DATA STREAM; PREFETCH; SPARSE MATRIX VECTOR MULTIPLY; STREAMED BLOCKED COMPRESSED ROW STORAGE FORMAT; STREAMED COMPRESSED ROW STORAGE FORMAT;

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA STRUCTURES; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; VECTORS;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 79951628991     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: 17412846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342010374847     Document Type: Article

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