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This document presents an efficient Huffman coding approach optimized for modern GPU architectures, addressing challenges in parallelization and memory bandwidth. The proposed solution includes a parallel codebook construction and a novel reduction-based encoding scheme, resulting in significant throughput improvements on various NVIDIA GPUs. The work enhances data compression efficiency in high-performance computing applications, leading to faster processing and reduced storage costs.

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Optimizing-Huffman-Coding-for-Modern-GPU-Architectures

This document presents an efficient Huffman coding approach optimized for modern GPU architectures, addressing challenges in parallelization and memory bandwidth. The proposed solution includes a parallel codebook construction and a novel reduction-based encoding scheme, resulting in significant throughput improvements on various NVIDIA GPUs. The work enhances data compression efficiency in high-performance computing applications, leading to faster processing and reduced storage costs.

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Optimizing Huffman

Coding for Modern GPU


Architectures
This presentation explores an efficient Huffman coding approach
designed for modern GPU architectures, tackling the challenges of
parallelization and memory bandwidth utilization.

by Gireeshgowda K.v
The Growing Need for
Data Compression in
HPC
High-performance computing (HPC) applications produce vast
volumes of data, demanding efficient storage and transfer. Data
compression emerges as a critical technique to mitigate the storage
burden and data movement cost.
Huffman Coding: A
Foundation for
Compression
Huffman coding is a widely used variable-length encoding method
known for its cost-effectiveness. It serves as a fundamental step in
many modern compression algorithms, including DEFLATE.
Challenges with Huffman Encoding on GPUs
Low Throughput Parallelization Challenges

Huffman encoding suffers from low throughput on GPUs, Parallelizing the entire Huffman encoding algorithm,
creating a bottleneck in data processing. including codebook construction, is a significant
challenge.
Our Proposed Solution:
Efficient Huffman
Encoding on GPUs
1 Efficient Parallel 2 Novel Reduction-
Codebook Based Encoding
Construction Scheme
We develop an efficient We propose a novel
parallel codebook reduction-based encoding
construction on GPUs that scheme that efficiently
effectively scales with the merges codewords on GPUs.
number of input symbols.

3 Optimized Performance
We leverage state-of-the-art CUDA APIs, such as Cooperative Groups,
to optimize GPU performance.
Evaluation and Results
5.0×
RTX 5000 Speedup
Our solution improves encoding throughput by up to 5.0× on NVIDIA RTX 5000.

6.8×
V100 Speedup
Our solution improves encoding throughput by up to 6.8× on NVIDIA V100.

3.3×
CPU Speedup
Our solution improves encoding throughput by up to 3.3× over the multithread encoder
on CPUs.
Key Components of
Our Optimization
Two-Phase Canonical Codebook
Codebook
We use a canonical codebook
Construction for efficient decoding and
Our codebook construction
algorithm consists of two memory utilization.
phases: GenerateCL and
GenerateCW.

Iterative Merge for Encoding


We employ an iterative merge, consisting of reduce-merge and
shuffle-merge, to optimize memory bandwidth utilization.
Impact of Our Work on HPC
Our optimized Huffman encoder significantly improves the efficiency of data compression in HPC applications, leading to
faster data processing, reduced storage costs, and improved overall workflow performance.
Future Directions

Performance Tuning
We aim to further tune performance for low-compression-ratio data.

Data Feature Analysis


We will explore how intrinsic data features affect compression ratio and
throughput.

Gathering Method Exploration


We will explore more efficient gathering methods for compressed data.
Conclusion
By leveraging parallel codebook construction and a novel reduction-
based encoding scheme, we have developed an efficient Huffman
encoder that significantly enhances the performance of data
compression on modern GPU architectures.

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