2021/03/22 by Sivasankaran Rajamanickam, Rajamanickam, Sivasankaran, Seher Acer +17 · 3 citations
Computer Science · Engineering · #Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques #Low-power high-performance VLSI design #Error Correcting Code Techniques
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2103.11991
As hardware architectures are evolving in the push towards exascale, developing Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) applications depend on performance portable approaches for sustainable software development. This paper describes one aspect of performance portability with respect to developing a portable library of kernels that serve the needs of several CSE applications and software frameworks. We describe Kokkos Kernels, a library of kernels for sparse linear algebra, dense linear algebra and graph kernels. We describe the design principles of such a library and demonstrate portable performance of the library using some selected kernels. Specifically, we demonstrate the performance of four sparse kernels, three dense batched kernels, two graph kernels and one team level algorithm.