SLATE: Design of a modern distributed and accelerated linear algebra library

Mark Gates, Jakub Kurzak, Ali Charara, Asim Yarkhan, Jack Dongarra

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Abstract

The SLATE (Software for Linear Algebra Targeting Exascale) library is being developed to provide fundamental dense linear algebra capabilities for current and upcoming distributed high-performance systems, both accelerated CPU-GPU based and CPU based. SLATE will provide coverage of existing ScaLAPACK functionality, including the parallel BLAS; linear systems using LU and Cholesky; least squares problems using QR; and eigenvalue and singular value problems. In this respect, it will serve as a replacement for ScaLAPACK, which after two decades of operation, cannot adequately be retrofitted for modern accelerated architectures. SLATE uses modern techniques such as communication-avoiding algorithms, lookahead panels to overlap communication and computation, and task-based scheduling, along with a modern C++ framework. Here we present the design of SLATE and initial reports of several of its components.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of SC 2019
Subtitle of host publicationThe International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9781450362290
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 17 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event2019 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2019 - Denver, United States
Duration: Nov 17 2019Nov 22 2019

Publication series

NameInternational Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC
ISSN (Print)2167-4329
ISSN (Electronic)2167-4337

Conference

Conference2019 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver
Period11/17/1911/22/19

Funding

This research was supported by the Exascale Computing Project (17-SC-20-SC), a joint project of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science and National Nuclear Security Administration, responsible for delivering a capable exascale ecosystem, including software, applications, and hardware technology, to support the nation’s exascale computing imperative. This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725.

Keywords

  • Dense linear algebra
  • Distributed computing
  • GPU computing

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