Research Article

Performance Optimization and Modeling of Fine-Grained Irregular Communication in UPC

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An improved UPC implementation of SpMV by explicit thread privatization.
/∗ Allocation of the five shared arrays x, y, D, A, J as in the naive implementation ∗/
// …
/∗ Instead of upc_forall, each thread directly handles its designated blocks ∗/
int mythread_nblks = nblks/THREADS + (MYTHREAD < (nblks% THREADS) ?1 : 0);
for (int mb = 0; mb < mythread_nblks; mb++) {
int offset = (mb ∗ THREADS + MYTHREAD) ∗ BLOCKSIZE;
 /∗ casting shared pointers to local pointers ∗/
doubleloc_y = (double) (y + offset);
doubleloc_D = (double) (D + offset);
doubleloc_A = (double) (A + offset ∗ rnz);
intloc_J = (int) (J + offset ∗ rnz);
 /∗ computation per block ∗/
for (int k = 0; k < min(BLOCKSIZE, n-offset); k++) {
  double tmp = 0.0;
  for (int j = 0; j < rnz; j++)
   tmp += loc_A[k ∗ rnz + j] ∗ x[loc_J[k ∗ rnz + j]];
  loc_y[k] = loc_D[k] ∗ x[offset + k] + tmp;
 }
}