cuSPARSELt: A High-Performance CUDA Library for Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication

NVIDIA cuSPARSELt is a high-performance CUDA library dedicated to general matrix-matrix operations in which at least one operand is a sparse matrix:

D = Activation(\alpha op(A) \cdot op(B) + \beta op(C) + bias) \cdot scale

where op(A)/op(B) refers to in-place operations such as transpose/non-transpose, and alpha, beta, scale are scalars.

The cuSPARSELt APIs allow flexibility in the algorithm/operation selection, epilogue, and matrix characteristics, including memory layout, alignment, and data types.

Download: developer.nvidia.com/cusparselt/downloads

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Examples: cuSPARSELt Example 1, cuSPARSELt Example 2

Blog post: Exploiting NVIDIA Ampere Structured Sparsity with cuSPARSELt

Key Features

  • NVIDIA Sparse MMA tensor core support

  • Mixed-precision computation support:

    • FP16 input/output, FP32 Tensor Core accumulate

    • BFLOAT16 input/output, FP32 Tensor Core accumulate

    • INT8 input/output, INT32 Tensor Core compute

    • FP32 input/output, TF32 Tensor Core compute

    • TF32 input/output, TF32 Tensor Core compute

  • Matrix pruning and compression functionalities

  • Activation functions, bias vector, and output scaling

  • Batched computation (multiple matrices in a single run)

  • GEMM Split-K mode

  • Auto-tuning functionality (see cusparseLtMatmulSearch())

  • NVTX ranging and Logging functionalities

Support

  • Supported SM Architectures: SM 8.0, SM 8.6

  • Supported OSes: Linux, Windows

  • Supported CPU Architectures: x86_64, Arm64

Prerequisites