Symbolic mapping and allocation for the Cholesky factorization on NUMA machines: Results and optimizations

  • Authors:
  • Emmanuel Jeannot

  • Affiliations:
  • Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, LaBRI, France

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We discuss some performance issues of the tiled Cholesky factorization on non-uniform memory access-time (NUMA) shared memory machines. We show how to optimize thread and data placement in order to improve performance. The final result is 50\% faster than PLASMA and 75\% faster than MKL.