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P. Scheffler, F. Zaruba, F. Schuiki, T. Hoefler, L. Benini:
	Indirection Stream Semantic Register Architecture for Efficient Sparse-Dense Linear Algebra (In Proceedings of Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE), 2021) Abstract Sparse-dense linear algebra is crucial in many domains, but challenging to handle efficiently on CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators alike; multiplications with sparse formats like CSR and CSF require indirect memory lookups. In this work, we enhance a memory-streaming RISC-V ISA extension to accelerate sparse-dense products through streaming indirection. We present efficient dot, matrix-vector, and matrix-matrix product kernels using our hardware, enabling single-core FPU utilizations of up to 80% and speedups of up to 7.2x over an optimized baseline without extensions. A matrix-vector implementation on a multi-core cluster is up to 5.8x faster and 2.7x more energy-efficient with our kernels than an optimized baseline. We propose further uses for our indirection hardware, such as scatter-gather operations and codebook decoding, and compare our work to state-of-the-art CPU, GPU, and accelerator approaches, measuring a 2.8x higher peak FP64 utilization in CSR matrix-vector multiplication than a GTX 1080 Ti GPU running a cuSPARSE kernel. Documents download article: access preprint on arxiv: Recorded talk (best effort)
	BibTeX
@article{date-issr,   author={Paul Scheffler and Florian Zaruba and Fabian Schuiki and Torsten Hoefler and Luca Benini},   title={{Indirection Stream Semantic Register Architecture for Efficient Sparse-Dense Linear Algebra}},   year={2021},   booktitle={Proceedings of Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE)}, }