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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 4, 2026
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This is a computational performance optimization report comparing tuned implementations of a self-organizing map (SOM) algorithm on GPU hardware. It demonstrates speedup metrics and bandwidth utilization but contains no clinical data, biological findings, or evidence bearing on medical practice or scientific hypotheses in life science.
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SparseBin tuned configuration achieved 5.6–10.1× speedup per epoch over previously published configuration at map sizes 32×32 to 512×512 Margin over earlier CUDA implementation increased from ~80× to ~385× Tuned cuSPARSE baseline became 2–3× faster following optimization
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A computational optimization report on GPU algorithm tuning with no clinical, biological, or medical application stated; this is a software engineering benchmark and does not constitute evidence for any clinical or scientific question.
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Comparisons between GPU implementations are usually asymmetric: one side is tuned by its author, the other is run as found. I report a programme that tuned both a novel SOM algorithm (SparseBin) and the baseline algorithm it was being compared to (cuSPARSE). The best-matching-unit search that dominates self-organizing map training was tuned through four levers - tile size, tile-membership clustering, neuron-axis chunking and vectorised loads - reaching 5.6-10.1x per epoch over the previously published configuration at map sizes from 32x32 to 512x512, and lifting the margin over the CUDA implementation behind our earlier MEDLINE atlases from ~80x to ~385x. cuSPARSE, the implementation SparseBin is compared against, received every lever with an analogue on its side, and became 2-3x faster in the process. The tuned kernel pressed the L2 bandwidth roof at 77% of peak with every other unit at 40-65%, bounding any further lever at ~1.3x - a terminal result rather than a waypoint, and every untested lever was either capped by that bound by construction or measured null.
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