Ginkgo is a high-performance linear algebra library for manycore systems, with a focus on sparse solution of linear systems. It is implemented using modern C++ (you will need at least C++14 compliant compiler to build it), with GPU kernels implemented in CUDA and HIP.
Performance
An extensive database of up-to-date benchmark results is available in the performance data repository. Visualizations of the database can be interactively generated using the Ginkgo Performance Explorer web application. The benchmark results are automatically updated using the CI system to always reflect the current state of the library.
Prerequisites
Linux and Mac OS
For Ginkgo core library:
- cmake 3.9+
- C++14 compliant compiler, one of:
- gcc 5.3+, 6.3+, 7.3+, all versions after 8.1+
- clang 3.9+
- Intel compiler 2017+
- Apple LLVM 8.0+ (TODO: verify)
The Ginkgo CUDA module has the following additional requirements:
- CUDA 9.0+
- Any host compiler restrictions your version of CUDA may impose also apply here. For the newest CUDA version, this information can be found in the CUDA installation guide for Linux or CUDA installation guide for Mac Os X
In addition, if you want to contribute code to Ginkgo, you will also need the following:
- clang-format 8.0.0+ (ships as part of clang)
- clang-tidy (optional, when setting the flag
-DGINKGO_WITH_CLANG_TIDY=ON
) - iwyu (Include What You Use, optional, when setting the flag
-DGINKGO_WITH_IWYU=ON
)
The Ginkgo HIP module has the following additional requirements:
- ROCm 3.5+
- the HIP, hipBLAS, hipSPARSE, hip/rocRAND packages compiled with either:
* AMD backend (using the
clang
compiler) * CUDA 9.2+ backend. When using CUDA 10+, cmake 3.12.2+ is required.
Windows
The prequirement needs to be verified
- cmake 3.9+
- C++14 compliant 64-bit compiler:
- MinGW : gcc 5.3+, 6.3+, 7.3+, all versions after 8.1+
- Cygwin : gcc 5.3+, 6.3+, 7.3+, all versions after 8.1+
- Microsoft Visual Studio : VS 2017 15.7+
NOTE: Need to add --autocrlf=input
after git clone
in Cygwin.
The Ginkgo CUDA module has the following additional requirements:
- CUDA 9.0+
- Microsoft Visual Studio
- Any host compiler restrictions your version of CUDA may impose also apply here. For the newest CUDA version, this information can be found in the CUDA installation guide for Windows
The Ginkgo OMP module has the following additional requirements:
- MinGW or Cygwin
In these environments, two problems can be encountered, the solution for which is described in the windows section in INSTALL.md:
ld: error: export ordinal too large
needs the compilation flag-O1
cc1plus.exe: out of memory allocating 65536 bytes
requires a modification of the environment
NOTE: Some restrictions will also apply on the version of C and C++ standard libraries installed on the system. This needs further investigation.
Quick Install
Building Ginkgo
To build Ginkgo, you can use the standard CMake procedure.
mkdir build; cd build
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" .. && make
By default, GINKGO_BUILD_REFERENCE
is enabled. You should be able to run
examples with this executor. By default, Ginkgo tries to enable the relevant
modules depending on your machine environment (present of CUDA, ...). You can
also explicitly compile with the OpenMP, CUDA, HIP or DPC++ modules enabled to
run the examples with these executors. Please refer to the Installation
page for more details.
After the installation, CMake can find ginkgo with find_package(Ginkgo)
.
An example can be found in the test_install
.
Ginkgo Examples
Various examples are available for you to understand and play with Ginkgo within the examples/
directory. They can be compiled by passing the -DGINKGO_BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON
to the cmake command. Documentation for the examples is available within the doc/
folder in each of the example directory and a commented code with explanations can found in the online documentation.
Ginkgo Testing
Ginkgo does comprehensive unit tests using Google Tests. These tests are enabled by default and can be disabled if necessary by passing the -DGINKGO_BUILD_TESTS=NO
to the cmake command. More details about running tests can be found in the TESTING.md page.
Running the benchmarks
A unique feature of Ginkgo is the ability to run benchmarks and view your results with the help of the Ginkgo Performance Explorer (GPE).
More details about this can be found in the BENCHMARKING.md page
Contributing to Ginkgo
Contributing
When contributing for the first time, please add yourself to the list of external contributors like in the example below.
Contributors
I hereby place all my contributions in this codebase under a BSD-3-Clause license, as specified in the repository's LICENSE file.
Name Surname email@domain Institution(s)
Contributing guidelines
Contributing guidelines can be accessed in the CONTRIBUTING.md page. This page also contains other information useful to developers, such as writing proper commit messages, understanding Ginkgo's library design, relevant C++ information, and more.
Support
If you have any question, bug to report or would like to propose a new feature, feel free to create an issue on GitHub. Another possibility is to send an email to Ginkgo's main email address or to contact any of the main contributors.
Licensing
Ginkgo is available under the 3-clause BSD license. All contributions to the project are added under this license.
Depending on the configuration options used when building Ginkgo, third party software may be pulled as additional dependencies, which have their own licensing conditions. Refer to ABOUT-LICENSING.md for details.
Citing Ginkgo
The main Ginkgo paper describing Ginkgo's purpose, design and interface is available through the following reference:
@misc{anzt2020ginkgo,
title={Ginkgo: A Modern Linear Operator Algebra Framework for High Performance Computing},
author={Hartwig Anzt and Terry Cojean and Goran Flegar and Fritz Göbel and Thomas Grützmacher and Pratik Nayak and Tobias Ribizel and Yuhsiang Mike Tsai and Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí},
year={2020},
eprint={2006.16852},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.MS}
}
For more information on topical subjects, please refer to the CITING.md page.