Updated GEMM performance plot with CUTLASS 2.8 compiled using CUDA 11.5 Toolkit.
GPUs under test:
NVIDIA A100
NVIDIA A2
NVIDIA TitanV
NVIDIA GeForce 2080 Ti
CUTLASS 2.3 adds GEMMs targeting Sparse Tensor Cores on the NVIDIA Ampere Architecture, fast SGEMM, and small matrix classes, bug fixes, and performance enhancements.
* Updated documentation of fused GEMM example and removed UNITY BUILD batch size. The default batch size when unity build is enabled tends to be favorable.
- Updated mma_sm80.h to avoid perf penalty due to reinterpret_cast<>.
- Enhancement to CUTLASS Utility Library's HostTensorPlanarComplex template to support copy-in and copy-out
- Added test_examples target to build and test all CUTLASS examples
- Minor edits to documentation to point to GTC 2020 webinar
CUTLASS 2.1 contributes:
- BLAS-style host-side API added to CUTLASS Library
- Planar Complex GEMM kernels targeting Volta and Turing Tensor Cores
- Minor enhancements and bug fixes
CUTLASS 2.0
Substantially refactored for
- Better performance, particularly for native Turing Tensor Cores
- Robust and durable templates spanning the design space
- Encapsulated functionality embodying modern C++11 programming techniques
- Optimized containers and data types for efficient, generic, portable device code
Updates to:
- Quick start guide
- Documentation
- Utilities
- CUTLASS Profiler
Native Turing Tensor Cores
- Efficient GEMM kernels targeting Turing Tensor Cores
- Mixed-precision floating point, 8-bit integer, 4-bit integer, and binarized operands
Coverage of existing CUTLASS functionality:
- GEMM kernels targeting CUDA and Tensor Cores in NVIDIA GPUs
- Volta Tensor Cores through native mma.sync and through WMMA API
- Optimizations such as parallel reductions, threadblock rasterization, and intra-threadblock reductions
- Batched GEMM operations
- Complex-valued GEMMs
Note: this commit and all that follow require a host compiler supporting C++11 or greater.
* Fixed performance defect with indirect access to pointer array for Volta TensorCores TN arrangement.
* Updated patch version and changelog.
* Updated patch version and changelog.
* Added link to changelog in readme.
* Fixed markdown link
Andrew Kerr