Presentation
Working Toward an Interface for Sparse BLAS
DescriptionWhile sparse matrix computations are at the heart of many scientific and engineering applications, there exists no widely adopted interface standard. A reason for this may be the plethora of optimization options relevant to today’s accelerator architectures. At the same time, many vendors already provide support for sparse matrix computations in proprietary libraries, but due to diverging architectural constraints, these libraries have different execution models, APIs, and formats supported. We started a cross-institutional effort involving academia and industry to define an API for sparse linear algebra operations. In this BoF, we present a blueprint and discuss considerations motivating design choices.
