magma sparse vector

[Noran]

Hello @ all,
afteri used the sparse algorithms from magmasome time, i get stucked with the folowing struct:

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typedef struct magma_s_vector{

    magma_location_t   memory_location;
    magma_int_t        num_rows;
    magma_int_t        nnz; 
    float              *val;

}magma_s_vector;

Shouldn't there be an information in the struct where are the non-zero Elements are located? Or how is it done?

Greetz Noran

[hartwig anzt]

Noran,

in the current release, the nnz information is completely useless - redundant to num_rows. In the next release (scheduled for hopefully tomorrow) the vectors have an additional num_cols such that you can handle blocks of vectors simultaneously in SpMVs - becoming SpMMs then. You may still argue that the nnz information is useless as it will be num_rows * num_cols, but we have plans to have a more sophisticated structure in future, so we already want to keep them.

Hope this helps, and maybe you should use the new release as soon as possible, as we removed quite some issues (also the bugs reported by you - Thanks!)

Hartwig

[Noran]

I think you may missunderstood me. How can I distinguish for example the vector [1 0 0 0] from [0 1 0 0]. Shouldn't there be a second vector with the columnpointers? Or store i all values inclusive the zeros in the vector val

Greetz Noran

[hartwig anzt]

This is what we want to have in Future - but right now, all values (also the zeros) are stored explicitly. For your example,
val = [ 1 0 0 0 ]
and
val = [ 0 1 0 0 ]
respectively.

[Noran]

Great. That was, what i wanted to know :)

Greetz Noran