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SpMP (sparse matrix pre-processing) library includes optimized parallel implementations of a few key sparse matrix pre-processing routines: currently, task dependency graph construction of Gauss-Seidel like loops with data-dependent loop carried dependencies, and cache-locality optimizing reorderings like breadth-first search (BFS) and reverse Cuthill-McKee (RCM). In addition, SpMP includes auxiliary routines like parallel matrix transpose that is useful for moving back and forth between compressed sparse row (CSR) and compressed sparse column (CSC), matrix market file I/O, load balanced sparse matrix dense vector multiplication (SpMV), and optimized dissemination barrier.

The pre-processing routines implemented in SpMP are very important for achieving high performance of key sparse matrix operations such as sparse triangular solver, Gauss-Seidel (GS) smoothing, incomplete LU (ILU) factorization, and SpMV, in particular in modern machines with many cores and deep memory hierarchy. At the same time it is very challenging to have efficient parallel implementations of the pre-processing routines. An intention of SpMP design is to showcase a "best known method" in high-performance implementations of those pre-processing routines. SpMP can also be used as an usual library, for example within a sparse iterative solver package. However, if a package uses its own unique sparse matrix format, a direct invocation of SpMP can involve non-trivial conversion overhead. Therefore, we strive to document appropriately so that our optimization approach can be adopted by other software packages.

We recommend to explore SpMP starting from the two examples provided in test directory: test/gs_test.cpp and test/reordering_test.cpp . test/gs_test.cpp shows how to parallelize GS-like loops using the level scheduling approach with point-to-point synchronization and redundant transitive dependency elimination described in [1]. test/reordering_test.cpp shows how to optimize cache locality of SpMV by using BFS and RCM reorderings.

SpMP has the following file structure:

CSR.hpp/cpp: a simple compressed sparse row structure with support for routines like parallel matrix transposition.

LevelSchedule.hpp/cpp: an implementation of dependency graph construction of GS-like loops described in [1].

reordering/ConnectedComponents.cpp: parallel detection of connected components that is used for parallel BFS for graphs with multiple connected components. Implementation of algorithm described in [2].

reordering/RCM.cpp: parallel BFS and RCM reordering. Our BFS implementation incorporates optimizations described in [3]. Our RCM implementation uses pseudo-diameter heuristic described in [4] for selecting source nodes, and uses the method described in [5] for the final construction of RCM permutation.

synk/*: fast implementation of dissemination barrier

Permute.cpp: parallel permutation of CSR matrices SpMV.cpp: load-balanced SpMV mm_io.cpp and COO.hpp/cpp: matrix market file I/O Laplacian.cpp: generation of 3D 27-pt Laplacian matrices (useful for quickly testing w/o any file I/O)

Utils.hpp/cpp: miscellaneous routines like comparing two vectors with floating-point numbers, permuting vectors, and so on

[1] Park et al., Sparsifying Synchronizations for High-Performance Shared-Memory Sparse Triangular Solver, ISC 2014, (http://pcl.intel-research.net/publications/trsolver_isc14.pdf) [2] Patwary et al., Multi-core spanning forest algorithms using the disjoint-set data structure, IPDPS 2012 [3] Chhugani et al., Fast and Efficient Graph Traversal Algorithms for CPUs: Maximizing Single-Node Efficiency, IPDPS 2012 [4] Kumfert, AN OBJECT-ORIENTED ALGORITHMIC LABORATORY FOR ORDERING SPARSE MATRICES. [5] Karantasis et al., Parallelization of Reordering Algorithms for Bandwidth and Wavefront Reduction, SC 2014