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Detalji o izabranom predavanju:
| Seminar: | Seminar za numeričku matematiku i znan. računanje |
| Naziv predavanja: | Accelerating the Solution of Sparse Linear Systems with GPUs |
| Predavač: | Goran Flegar |
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14.12.2017 13:45 |
| Predavaonica: | 104 |
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Gost seminara |
| Opis: | Krylov solvers are one of the most commonly used methods for the solution of large, sparse linear systems. However, depending on the numerical properties of the system matrix these methods may converge slowly, or even diverge. Preconditioning is an effective method which aims to improve the numerical properties of the matrix, and thus, the convergence rate of the Krylov solver. As conventional ILU-based preconditioners offer only a limited degree of concurrency, in both the factorization, as well as the triangular solve phases, they are often not able to fully utilize the highly-parallel accelerator hardware. In contrast, while usually offering a lower convergence rate improvement, block-Jacobi preconditioning can be expressed in terms of independent computations on small diagonal blocks, making it an ideal candidate for these types of machines.
In this talk, I will describe several approaches for efficient generation and application of block-Jacobi preconditioners on CUDA-enabled GPUs. All presented kernels rely heavily on the increased register count and warp shuffle instructions available in newer GPU hardware and are tuned specifically for small problem sizes arising in block-Jacobi preconditioning. As a result, these routines outperform their counterparts from both open-source, as well as proprietary libraries, by a large margin. Finally, I will give an overview of the current research pursued by our group, which aims to further improve the effectiveness of block-Jacobi preconditioning, by reducing its memory footprint, as well as its energy consumption. |
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