Design fast matrix algorithms on high-performance cloud platforms

The low cost and high availability properties of cloud computing make it an attractive solution to not only service-oriented computing, but also to high performance applications. Many of those services and applications entail matrix computations, whose design and performance optimization for cloud platforms haven´t been fully studied. Although there is no concrete definition of what a cloud platform should be, especially for high performance purpose, it is believed a heterogeneous computing environment that equips with multicore processors and multiple accelerators is the trend of future high performance cloud architecture. In this paper, a preliminary research on fast matrix multiplication algorithm on multi-GPU is presented, accompanied with a list of future research plans on design fast matrix algorithms on high performance cloud platforms.