This performance tool is inspired by the merge-spmv performance evaluation tool. The tool was modified in order to support input in form of binary-converted CSR matrices, provide stable and reproducible performance data and support different additional SpMV kernels.
##References
Merrill, Duane, and Michael Garland. "Merge-based parallel sparse matrix-vector multiplication." In SC'16: Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, pp. 678-689. IEEE, 2016.
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