Usefulness of matrices module

[laa]

Hi.
I am not sure that I understand the usefulness of the matrices module.

Let us look at https://github.com/beehive-lab/TornadoVM/blob/master/tornado-matrices/src/main/java/uk/ac/manchester/tornado/matrix/MatrixMath.java#L47.
In this implementation, there are neither @Parallel annotations nor Kernel API.

What is the purpose of this class? Could you comment on it?

[jjfumero]

Hi, this class is used by another package for Computer Vision:

https://github.com/beehive-lab/kfusion-tornadovm

The goal is to be invoked by this of applications in which kernels are already parallelized and some of the functions in this package might not be parallelized. However, as you can see here, sgemm is parallel:
https://github.com/beehive-lab/TornadoVM/blob/master/tornado-matrices/src/main/java/uk/ac/manchester/tornado/matrix/MatrixMath.java#L80-L102

Do you have something in mind? What are you trying to build?

[laa]

Currently, I am working on the POC of transformer implementation, so the matrices module caught my eye. I will create my own implementations of matrix operations then. Thank you for your responses. They are always very quick.

[jjfumero]

That's really interesting. Keep us posted.

[laa]

With pleasure :-)

[kotselidis]

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