Dense Linear Algebra for Hybrid GPU-Based Systems

Stanimire Tomov Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee

Jack Dongarra Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory School of Mathematics & School of Computer Science, Manchester University

Since the introduction of multicore architectures, hardware designs are going through a renaissance due to the need for new approaches to manage the exponentially increasing:

1. Appetite for power, and

2. Gap between compute and communication speeds.