EECS Publication
Accelerating the LOBPCG method on GPUs using a blocked Sparse Matrix Vector Product
Hartwig Anzt and Stanimire Tomov and Jack Dongarra
This paper presents a heterogeneous CPU-GPU algorithm design and optimized implementation for an entire sparse iterative eigensolver - the Locally Optimal Block Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (LOBPCG) - starting from low-level GPU data structures and kernels to the higher-level algorithmic choices and overall heterogeneous design. Most notably, the eigensolver leverages the high-performance of a new GPU kernel developed for the simultaneous multiplication of a sparse matrix and a set of vectors (SpMM). This is a building block that serves as a backbone for not only block-Krylov, but also for other methods relying on blocking for acceleration in general. The heterogeneous LOBPCG developed here reveals the potential of this type of eigensolver by highly optimizing all of its components, and can be viewed as a benchmark for other SpMM-dependent applications. Compared to non-blocked algorithms, we show that the performance speedup factor of SpMM vs. SpMV-based algorithms is up to six on GPUs like NVIDIA's K40. In particular, a typical SpMV performance range in double precision is 20 to 25 GFlop/s, while the SpMM is in the range of 100 to 120 GFlop/s. Compared to highly-optimized CPU implementations, e.g., the SpMM from MKL on two eight-core Intel Xeon E5-2690s, our kernel is 3 to 5x. faster on a K40 GPU. For comparison to other computational loads, the same GPU to CPU performance acceleration is observed for the SpMV product, as well as dense linear algebra, e.g., matrix-matrix multiplication and factorizations like LU, QR, and Cholesky. Thus, the modeled GPU (vs. CPU) acceleration for the entire solver is also 3 to 5x. In practice though, currently available CPU implementations are much slower due to missed optimization opportunities, as we show.
Published 2014-10-17 04:00:00 as ut-eecs-14-731 (ID:589)