apache/spark — pull request #2294 by brkyvz (2014-09-05 21:04:45+00:00)
Title: [SPARK-3418] Sparse Matrix support (CCS) and additional native BLAS operations added

Local `SparseMatrix` support added in Compressed Column Storage (CCS) format in addition to Level-2 and Level-3 BLAS operations such as dgemv and dgemm respectively.

BLAS doesn't support sparse matrix operations, therefore support for `SparseMatrix`-`DenseMatrix` multiplication and `SparseMatrix`-`DenseVector` implementations have been added. I will post performance comparisons in the comments momentarily.