Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library (oneMKL) - Data Parallel C++ Developer Reference

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Sparse BLAS Routines

The Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library provides a Data Parallel C++ interface to some of the Sparse BLAS routines. This section describes the Sparse BLAS routines included in the Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library (oneMKL).
Sparse BLAS provides basic operations on sparse vectors and matrices and separates them into three stages: initialization, analysis (also called inspector stage or optimize stage) and execution. For a given matrix, the analysis would typically be called one time and the execution may be called multiple times. During the analysis stage, the API inspects the matrix properties including size, sparsity pattern and available parallelism and can apply matrix format or structure changes to enable a more optimized algorithm. In the execution stage, multiple routine calls can take advantage of the analysis stage data in order to improve performance.
The supported sparse formats in Sparse BLAS routines are described in Sparse Storage Formats.
Routine or Function Group
Data Types
Description
N/A
Initialize a
sparse::matrix_handle_t
 object
N/A
Release a
sparse::matrix_handle_t
 object
float, double
Set internal representation of
sparse::matrix_handle_t
 to compressed sparse row (CSR) format with user provided CSR data arrays.
N/A
Perform internal optimizations for the sparse::gemv operation.
N/A
Perform internal optimizations for the sparse::trmv operation.
N/A
Perform internal optimizations for the sparse::trsv operation.
float, double
General sparse matrix-dense vector product
float, double
General sparse matrix-dense vector product with fused dot product
float, double
Symmetric sparse matrix-dense vector product
float, double
Triangular sparse matrix-dense vector product
float, double
Triangular solve of sparse matrix against a dense vector.
float, double
General sparse matrix-dense matrix product
N/A
Initialize the
matmat_descr_t
 object. For use with sparse::matmat
N/A
Populate the
matmat_descr_t
 object with desired operation description. For use with sparse::matmat
N/A
Query the operation description housed in the
matmat_descr_t
 object. For use with sparse::matmat
N/A
Release the
matmat_descr_t
 object. For use with sparse::matmat
float, double
General sparse matrix-sparse matrix product
The currently supported sparse storage formats can be found in Sparse Storage Formats.

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