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BLAS-on-Flash Project Files

BLAS-on-Flash implements a small subset of BLAS routines (BLAS-2/3) that work with matrices/vectors stored on flash storage. In addition to BLAS routines, BlasonFlash also provides other routines like kmeans, sort, map, reduce for large-scale processing on disk-resident data. Currently, only the following routines are supported.

• _gemm
• _csrmm
• _csrgemv
• _csrcsc
• sort
• kmeans
• map
• reduce

Requirements

• Ubuntu 16.04 or newer running Linux Kernel v4.13 or newer (Older kernels have issues setting nr_requests parameter)
• cat /sys/block/<dev>/queue/nr_requests is at least 32768
• Intel MKL 2017+ is installed (usually in /opt/intel) and added to LD_PRELOAD path; See CMakeLists.txt for finer control over MKL paths
• libaio-dev package installed
• make and cmake installed with cmake > 3.0.0

Build instructions

• git clone ssh://git@github.com/Microsoft/BLAS-on-flash blas-on-flash
• cd blas-on-flash
• mkdir bin && cd bin
• cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=X .. where X=Debug or X=Release
• make -Bj

BLAS-on-Flash library design, architecture, and some performance numbers can be found in this paper.

Contributing

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