Papers about the Spark98 kernels


The Spark98 tech report:
David R. O'Hallaron, Spark98: Sparse Matrix Kernels for Shared Memory and Message Passing Systems, Technical Report CMU-CS-97-178, October 1997. Abstract (with BibTex citation), PostScript (994k, 20 pages). PDF (1,165k).

Performance model for the Spark98 SMVP operations:
David R. O'Hallaron, Jonathan Richard Shewchuk, and Thomas Gross, Architectural Implications of a Family of Irregular Applications, Fourth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, Feb, 1998, Las Vegas, NV, pp. 80-89. Abstract (with BibTex citation), PostScript (1,148k, 10 pages). PDF (1,151k).

An extended version of the paper is available as CMU Tech report CMU-CS-97-189, Nov, 1997. Abstract (with BibTex citation), PostScript (1,251k, 20 pages). PDF (1,400k).

Characterization of the Spark98 meshes:
David R. O'Hallaron and Jonathan Richard Shewchuk, Properties of a Family of Parallel Finite Element Simulations, Technical Report CMU-CS-96-141, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 1996. Abstract (with BibTex citation), PostScript (987k, 22 pages). PDF (1,328k).

Questions or comments? Please send email to David O'Hallaron at droh@cs.cmu.edu.