high performance computing on graphics processing units: hgpu.org

Existing GPU lossy compressors suffer from expensive data movement overheads, inefficient memory access patterns, and high synchronization latency, resulting in limited throughput. This work proposes CUSZP2, a generic single-kernel error-bounded lossy compressor purely on GPUs designed for applications that require high speed, such as large-scale GPU simulation and large language model training. In particular, CUSZP2 proposes a novel lossless encoding method, optimizes memory access patterns, and hides synchronization latency, achieving extreme end-to-end throughput and optimized compression ratio. Experiments on NVIDIA A100 GPU with 9 real-world HPC datasets demonstrate that, even with higher compression ratios and data quality, CUSZP2 can deliver on average 332.42 and 513.04 GB/s end-to-end throughput for compression and decompression, respectively, which is around 2x of existing pure-GPU compressors and 200x of CPU-GPU hybrid compressors.