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With discrete Intel GPUs entering the high performance computing landscape, there is an urgent need for production-ready software stacks for these platforms. In this paper, we report how we prepare the Ginkgo math library for Intel GPUs by developing a kernel backed based on the DPC++ programming environment. We discuss conceptual differences to the CUDA and HIP programming models and describe workflows for simplified code conversion. We benchmark advanced sparse linear algebra routines utilizing the converted kernels to assess the efficiency of the DPC++ backend in the hardware-specific performance bounds. We compare the performance of basic building blocks against routines providing the same functionality that ship with Intel’s oneMKL vendor library.
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These extensions are now part of the SYCL 2020 Specification: https://www.khronos.org/news/press/khronos-releases-sycl-2020-final-specification.
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Ginkgo is designed to compile for IEEE 754 double precision, single precision, double precision complex, and single precision complex arithmetic.
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At the point of writing, oneMKL does not provide a COO implementation and CSR can only operate on shared memory on the Gen12 architecture.
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Tsai, Y.M., Cojean, T., Anzt, H. (2022). Porting Sparse Linear Algebra to Intel GPUs. In: Chaves, R., et al. Euro-Par 2021: Parallel Processing Workshops. Euro-Par 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13098. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06156-1_5
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