Systems and methods are provided for sparse matrix vector multiplication with a matrix vector multiplication unit. The method includes partitioning a sparse matrix of entries into a plurality of sub-matrices; mapping each of the sub-matrices to one of a plurality of respective matrix vector multiplication engines; partitioning an input vector into a plurality of sub-vectors; computing, via each matrix vector multiplication engine, a plurality of intermediate result vectors each resulting from a multiplication of one of the sub-matrices and one of the sub-vectors; for each set of rows of the sparse matrix, adding elementwise the intermediate result vectors to produce a plurality of result sub-vectors; and concatenating the result sub-vectors to form a result vector.