NMF-mGPU

Non-negative Matrix Factorization on multi-GPU Systems

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NMF-mGPU implements the Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) algorithm by making use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). NMF takes an input matrix (V) and returns two matrices, W and H, whose product is equal to the former (i.e., V ≈ W ∗ H). If V has n rows and m columns, then dimensions for W and H, will be n × k and k × m, respectively. The factorization rank ("k") specified by the user, is usually a value much less than both, n and m.

This software has been developed using the NVIDIA's CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) framework for GPU Computing. CUDA represents a GPU device as a programmable general-purpose coprocessor able to perform linear-algebra operations.

On detached devices with low on-board memory available, large datasets can be blockwise transferred from the CPU's main memory to the GPU's memory and processed accordingly. In addition, NMF-mGPU has been explicitly optimized for the different existing CUDA architectures.

Finally, NMF-mGPU also provides a multi-GPU version that makes use of multiple GPU devices through the MPI (Message Passing Interface) standard.

If you use this software, please cite the following work:

E. Mejía-Roa, D. Tabas-Madrid, J. Setoain, C. García, F. Tirado and A. Pascual-Montano. NMF-mGPU: Non-negative matrix factorization on multi-GPU systems. BMC Bioinformatics 2015, 16:43. doi:10.1186/s12859-015-0485-4 [http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/16/43]