[Haskell-cafe] DPH matrix product

Mauro Blanco blancomau at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 14:51:43 CEST 2012


Thanks for both answers

I have used repa with the newer interface for the same example, but I
wanted to have another example using DPH. I know repa is more suited for
regular representations, but I wanted to express the same program in DPH
where I don´t have to worry of nested parallel computation.

The transposeP  did not seem to be the problem as only executing transposeP
on "big" matrices generated no memory issues. But, something like this (on
square matrices) still have  memory problems:
matMult :: Matrix -> Matrix -> Matrix
matMult mA mB = mapP (\row -> mapP (\col -> dotp row col) *mB*) mA

dotp :: MVector -> MVector -> MMultType
dotp row col = D.sumP (zipWithP (D.*) row col)

Later today (or tomorrow) I will post exact OS, GHC and libraries version
as the command line options and execution information on the simplified
example.

Thanks again

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Manuel M T Chakravarty <
chak at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:

> Firstly, especially when you are talking about performance, please
> provided detailed information on (a) the versions of the compiler and
> libraries that you used and (b) of the command line options that you used
> for compilation.
>
> Secondly, your function 'transposeP' doesn't make for a good nested
> data-parallel program. I haven't looked at the generated code, but I
> wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't optimise very well.
>
> The core benefit of nested data parallelism is that the sub-arrays in a
> nested array of arrays can be of varying size leading to irregular
> parallelism. However, that flexibility comes at a price, namely that it is
> a fairly inefficient representation for *rectangular arrays*, such as
> regular two-dimensional matrices (as in your example). It shouldn't be
> quite as inefficient as what you report, but it will never be competitive
> with a dedicated regular representation.
>
> Hence, for code, such as yours, we recommend to use our Repa library:
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/repa
>
> It generates very fast code for regular array problems, see also
> http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/papers/LCKP12.html
>
> Manuel
>
>
> mblanco <blancomau at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi, I'm trying to implement a matrix product example using DPH. This is
> the code:
> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
> ------------------------------**-------------------------
> type MMultType = Double
> type Matrix = [:[:MMultType:]:]
> type MVector = [:MMultType:]
> type Matrix_wrapper = PArray (PArray MMultType)
>
> {-# NOINLINE matMult_wrapper #-}
> matMult_wrapper :: Matrix_wrapper -> Matrix_wrapper -> Matrix_wrapper
> matMult_wrapper mA mB = toPArrayP (mapP toPArrayP (matMult
> (fromNestedPArrayP mA) (fromNestedPArrayP mB)))
>
> matMult :: Matrix -> Matrix -> Matrix
> matMult mA mB = mapP (\row -> mapP (\col -> dotp row col) (transposeP mB))
> mA
>
> dotp :: MVector -> MVector -> MMultType
> dotp row col = D.sumP (zipWithP (D.*) row col)
>
> transposeP :: Matrix -> Matrix
> transposeP m =
>     let
>         h = lengthP m
>         w = lengthP (m !: 0)
>         rh = I.enumFromToP 0 (h I.- 1)
>         rw = I.enumFromToP 0 (w I.- 1)
>     in
>         if h I.== 0 then [: :]
>         else mapP (\y -> mapP (\x -> m !: x !: y) rh) rw
> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
> ------------------------------**-------------------------
>
> My problem is at execution time, on matrices of size 300*300 the program
> does finish (although it is very slow), but on 700*700 it consumes GBs of
> RAM until the process is aborted.
>
> In the paper "Work Efficient Higher-Order Vectorisation" it is explained
> that a work complexity problem (wich involved unnecesary array replication)
> was recently treated. So at first I thought the code implementation related
> to the paper had not been uploaded to hackage. But as I understand it must
> have been, as that seems to be the motive of the "dph-lifted-vseg" package.
>
> Does anybody notice the problem with the example or if the problem is
> related to the subject treated in the paper?
>
> Thanks in advance!
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-- 
Mauro Blanco
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