yhirose/msl-dot-product-example

MSL Dot Product example

MSL Dot Product example

This library uses GPU cores in Apple M1 chip with Metal-cpp

Build and run unit tests and benchmark

• Install Xcode Command Line Tools
• Run the following commands in Terminal

cd test
make

Benchmark on M1 MacBook Pro 14

Matrix size: [100 × 1000] dot [1000 × 100] = [1000 × 100]

ns/op	op/s	err%	total	benchmark
152,126,173.67	6.57	0.0%	18.29	CPU
3,717,496.50	269.00	0.4%	0.45	SIMD w/ Eigen
1,410,621.50	708.91	11.8%	0.16	GPU

MSL code for Dot Product

kernel void dot(
  device const void* A_bytes,
  device const void* B_bytes,
  device void*       OUT_bytes,
  constant uint32_t& A_cols,
  constant uint32_t& OUT_raws,
  constant uint32_t& OUT_cols,
  uint2              gid [[thread_position_in_grid]])
{
  auto A = static_cast<device const float*>(A_bytes);
  auto B = static_cast<device const float*>(B_bytes);
  auto OUT = reinterpret_cast<device float*>(OUT_bytes);

  float val = 0.0;
  for (uint32_t i = 0; i < A_cols; i++) {
    val += A[A_cols * gid.y + i] * B[OUT_cols * i + gid.x];
  }

  OUT[OUT_cols * gid.y + gid.x] = val;
}