SVDARM

A Seng440 project on Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and optimizing its performance on an arm machine.

Presentation

• Google Drive slides link

Requirements

• Packages
  • qemu
  • qemu-kvm
  • qemu-system-arm
  • libvirt-clients
  • libvirt-daemon-system
  • bridge-utils
• virt-manager
  • arch: arm
  • machine type: virt-2.11
  • Fedora 29
  • 2GB Ram
  • 1 CPU
• gcc compiler
• neon intrinsics header file arm_neon.h (included in arm virtual machine)
• Disk image: Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-29-1.2-sda.qcow2
• Linux Kernel: vmlinuz-4.18.16-300.fc29.armv7hl
• Root file system: initramfs-4.18.16-300.fc29.armv7hl.img

Installation

To download the optional disk, kernel, and root file system for the virtual machine visit the UVic seng repo using the university vpn.

Create a VM in virt-manager using the settings specified in the requirements section.

Add the following kernel arguments:

console=ttyAMA0
rw
root=LABEL=_/
rootwait
ipv6.disable=1

Compilation & Execution

Run make in the root directory to compile the files and generate the a.out executable.

make

Run the executable.

./a.out

Documentation

To see the documentation go to the docs folder.

The implementation is based on a set of slides provided by the professor in the docs folder.

Authors

• Robert Tulip - [email protected]
• Michail Roesli - [email protected]