Analytical Modeling Is Enough for High-Performance BLIS

Analytical Models for the BLIS Framework

We show how the BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software (BLIS) framework, which provides a more detailed layering of the GotoBLAS (now maintained as OpenBLAS) implementation, allows one to analytically determine optimal tuning parameters for high-end instantiations of the matrix-matrix multiplication. This is of both practical and scientific importance, as it greatly reduces the development ef...

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Analytical Modeling of Multithreaded Pipeline Performance

T h e throughput of pipelined processors suf fers due t o delays associated wi th ins t ruc t ion dependencies and m e m o r y latencies . Multithreaded architectures t r y t o tolerate such delays by sharing t h e pipeline wi th independent ins t ruc t ion threads. T h i s paper proposes a n analyt ic model which i s used t o quant i tate t h e advantage of multithreaded architectures. T h e a...

Enough is enough.

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the first Surgeon General report on smoking and health (U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1964) was the release of the 2014 Surgeon General report The Health Consequences of Smoking-50 Years of Progress (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2014). During a press conference announcing the report in January 2014, Acting Surgeon Gene...

When Is Enough, Enough?

As academic researchers we have to walk a delicate line when it comes to publishing papers on similar topics, possibly using the same data sets. On one hand, we want to get as many articles published as possible, preferably in high quality journals. We want to leverage the data sets that we have spent considerable effort collecting. On the other hand, we need to be careful not to overuse these ...