Title
Geometry-Oblivious FMM for Compressing Dense SPD Matrices.
Abstract
We present GOFMM (geometry-oblivious FMM), a novel method that creates a hierarchical low-rank approximation, or "compression," of an arbitrary dense symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix. For many applications, GOFMM enables an approximate matrix-vector multiplication in N log N or even N time, where N is the matrix size. Compression requires N log N storage and work. In general, our scheme belongs to the family of hierarchical matrix approximation methods. In particular, it generalizes the fast multipole method (FMM) to a purely algebraic setting by only requiring the ability to sample matrix entries. Neither geometric information (i.e., point coordinates) nor knowledge of how the matrix entries have been generated is required, thus the term "geometry-oblivious." Also, we introduce a shared-memory parallel scheme for hierarchical matrix computations that reduces synchronization barriers. We present results on the Intel Knights Landing and Haswell architectures, and on the NVIDIA Pascal architecture for a variety of matrices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3126908.3126921
SC '17: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis Denver Colorado November, 2017
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Geometry-oblivious,Fast Multiple Methods,Hierarchical Matrices,Fast Matrix Multiplication,Heterogeneous Computing
Conference
abs/1707.00164
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2167-4329
978-1-4503-5114-0
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
27
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chenhan D. Yu1626.25
James Levitt220.40
Severin Reiz320.40
George Biros493877.86