Massively parallel breadth first search using a tree-structured memory model

  • Authors:

  • Tom St. John;Jack B. Dennis;Guang R. Gao

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Delaware;Massachusetts Institute of Technology;University of Delaware

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Analysis of massive graphs has emerged as an important area for massively parallel computation. In this paper, it is shown how the Fresh Breeze trees-of-chunks memory model may be used to perform breadth-first search of large undirected graphs. Overall, the computation can be expressed as a data flow process wherein a set of vertices to be searched is partitioned into a set of sub-domains and processed independently by many concurrent tasks. The main contributions of the paper are listed below. • We present the first case study demonstrating the power of the Fresh Breeze program execution model (PXM) in the exploitation of fine-grain parallelism found in irregular applications such as graph algorithms. • We present a novel parallel breadth-first search algorithm which is fully determinate. • We describe a unique sparse vector representation that represents the set of adjacencies for each vertex. • We provide an experimental study and analysis of our implementation. An estimate is also made of the performance that might be achieved with a massively parallel system built according to Fresh Breeze principles.