Multithreaded asynchronous graph traversal for In-Memory and Semi-External Memory

Roger Pearce, Maya Gokhale, Nancy M. Amato

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Abstract

Processing large graphs is becoming increasingly important for many domains such as social networks, bioinformatics, etc. Unfortunately, many algorithms and implementations do not scale with increasing graph sizes. As a result, researchers have attempted to meet the growing data demands using parallel and external memory techniques. We present a novel asynchronous approach to compute Breadth-First-Search (BFS), Single-Source-Shortest-Paths, and Connected Components for large graphs in shared memory. Our highly parallel asynchronous approach hides data latency due to both poor locality and delays in the underlying graph data storage. We present an experimental study applying our technique to both In-Memory and Semi-External Memory graphs utilizing multi-core processors and solid-state memory devices. Our experiments using synthetic and real-world datasets show that our asynchronous approach is able to overcome data latencies and provide significant speedup over alternative approaches. For example, on billion vertex graphs our asynchronous BFS scales up to 14x on 16-cores.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2010 ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2010
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event2010 ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2010 - New Orleans, LA, United States
Duration: Nov 13 2010Nov 19 2010

Publication series

Name2010 ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2010

Other

Other2010 ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans, LA
Period11/13/1011/19/10

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture

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