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Opportunities for Parallelism in Matrix Multiplication

Tyler M. Smith, Robert A. van de Geijn, Mikhail Smelyanskiy, Jeff R. Hammond and Field G. Van Zee
Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences and Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX, 78712
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Science. Technical Report TR-13-20, FLAME Working Note 71, 2013

@article{smith2013opportunities,

   title={Opportunities for Parallelism in Matrix Multiplication},

   author={Smith, Tyler M and van de Geijn, Robert A and Smelyanskiy, Mikhail and Hammond, Jeff R and Van Zee, Field G},

   year={2013}

}

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BLIS is a new framework for rapid instantiation of the BLAS. We describe how BLIS extends the "GotoBLAS approach" to implementing matrix multiplication (GEMM). While GEMM was previously implemented as three loops around an inner kernel, BLIS exposes two additional loops within that inner kernel, casting the computation in terms of the BLIS micro-kernel so that porting GEMM becomes a matter of customizing this micro-kernel for a given architecture. We discuss how this facilitates a finer level of parallelism that greatly simplifies the multithreading of GEMM as well as additional opportunities for parallelizing multiple loops. Specifically, we show that with the advent of many-core architectures such as the IBM PowerPC A2 processor (used by Blue Gene/Q) and the Intel Xeon Phi processor, parallelizing both within and around the inner kernel, as the BLIS approach supports, is not only convenient, but also necessary for scalability. The resulting implementations deliver what we believe to be the best open source performance for these architectures, achieving both impressive performance and excellent scalability.
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