Generating optimized sparse matrix vector product over finite fields

Abstract

Sparse Matrix Vector multiplication (SpMV) is one of the most important operation for exact sparse linear algebra. A lot of research has been done by the numerical community to provide efficient sparse matrix formats. However, when computing over finite fields, one need to deal with multi-precision values and more complex operations. In order to provide highly efficient SpMV kernel over finite field, we propose a code generation tool that uses heuristics to automatically choose the underlying matrix representation and the corresponding arithmetic. © 2014 Springer-Verlag.