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Title _TRSV: optimizing triangular solve in CUDA
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Abstract The _trsv level 2 BLAS routine solves the linear system Lx = b for some lower triangular matrix L. It is an important kernel in the solution phase of a direct linear solver, and is often run repeatedly for iterative refinement. The current CUBLAS implementation of _trsv fails to beat the host MKL performance even on many large matrices. In this talk we describe how to improve performance by an order of magnitude through minimizing memory latency overheads and the use of global memory rather than kernel launches for synchronization. These techniques may be of use in other problems where high performance is required but only small amounts of data are used each iteration.
Organisation CSE-NAG , STFC , SCI-COMP
Keywords CUDA , GPU , Linear Algebra
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Language English (EN)
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Presentation Presented at Oxford e-Research centre Many-Core Seminar Series, Oxford, UK, 23 May 2012. dtrsv.pdf 2012