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Subject: Re: [ublas] Matrix multiplication performance
From: Michael Lehn (michael.lehn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-01-20 15:46:06


So has anyone compared the performance yet?

On 20 Jan 2016, at 00:47, Joaquim Duran Comas <jdurancomas_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I think that some development about a new product algorithm was done in the branchhttps://github.com/uBLAS/ublas/tree/ublas_feature0004_fast_matrix_multiplication.
>
> Thanks and Best Regards,
> Joaquim Duran
>
>
> 2016-01-19 15:41 GMT+01:00 Michael Lehn <michael.lehn_at_[hidden]>:
> Sorry for the inconvenience. I guess sending attachments to the mailing list is prohibited. I put the
> code on a website:
>
> http://apfel.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/~lehn/test_ublas/
>
>
>
> On 19 Jan 2016, at 15:14, palik imre <imre_palik_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> I cannot see any attachments ...
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, 19 January 2016, 11:12, palik imre <imre_palik_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Is there a public git repo for ublas 2.0?
>>
>>
>> On Monday, 18 January 2016, 9:25, Oswin Krause <Oswin.Krause_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi Palik,
>>
>> this is a known problem. In your case you should already get better
>> performance when using axpy_prod instead of prod. There are currently
>> moves towards a ublas 2.0 which should make this a non-problem in the
>> future.
>>
>>
>> On 2016-01-17 21:23, palik imre wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > It seems that the matrix multiplication in ublas ends up with the
>> > trivial algorithm. On my machine, even the following function
>> > outperforms it for square matrices bigger than 173*173 (by a huge
>> > margin for matrices bigger than 190*190), while not performing
>> > considerably worse for smaller matrices:
>> >
>> > matrix<double>
>> > matmul_byrow(const matrix<double> &lhs, const matrix<double> &rhs)
>> > {
>> > assert(lhs.size2() == rhs.size1());
>> > matrix<double> rv(lhs.size1(), rhs.size2());
>> > matrix<double> r = trans(rhs);
>> > for (unsigned c = 0; c < rhs.size2(); c++)
>> > {
>> > matrix_column<matrix<double> > out(rv, c);
>> > matrix_row<matrix<double> > in(r, c);
>> > out = prod(lhs, in);
>> > }
>> > return rv;
>> > }
>> >
>> >
>> > Is there anybody working on improving the matrix multiplication
>> > performance?
>> >
>> > If not, then I can try to find some spare cycles ...
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Imre Palik
>>
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