NDLI: Communication-Avoiding QR Decomposition for GPUs

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Anderson, M. Ballard, G. Demmel, J. Keutzer, K.
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	We describe an implementation of the Communication-Avoiding QR (CAQR) factorization that runs entirely on a single graphics processor (GPU). We show that the reduction in memory traffic provided by CAQR allows us to outperform existing parallel GPU implementations of QR for a large class of tall-skinny matrices. Other GPU implementations of QR handle panel factorizations by either sending the work to a general-purpose processor or using entirely bandwidth-bound operations, incurring data transfer overheads. In contrast, our QR is done entirely on the GPU using compute-bound kernels, meaning performance is good regardless of the width of the matrix. As a result, we outperform CULA, a parallel linear algebra library for GPUs by up to 17x for tall-skinny matrices and Intel's Math Kernel Library (MKL) by up to 12x. We also discuss stationary video background subtraction as a motivating application. We apply a recent statistical approach, which requires many iterations of computing the singular value decomposition of a tall-skinny matrix. Using CAQR as a first step to getting the singular value decomposition, we are able to get the answer 3x faster than if we use a traditional bandwidth-bound GPU QR factorization tuned specifically for that matrix size, and 30x faster than if we use Intel's Math Kernel Library (MKL) singular value decomposition routine on a multicore CPU.
Starting Page	48
Ending Page	58
File Size	1634736
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781612843728
ISSN	15302075
DOI	10.1109/IPDPS.2011.15
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-05-16
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Graphics processing unit Matrix decomposition Kernel Libraries Vegetation Instruction sets
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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