A comparative analysis of parallel disk-based Methods for enumerating implicit graphs

  • Authors:
  • Eric Robinson;Daniel Kunkle;Gene Cooperman

  • Affiliations:
  • Northeastern University, Boston, MA;Northeastern University, Boston, MA;Northeastern University, Boston, MA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2007 international workshop on Parallel symbolic computation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

It is only in the last five years that researchers have begun to use disk-based search techniques on a large scale. The primary examples of its use come from symbolic algebra and from artificial intelligence. In the field of parallel search, disk-based search has been forced on researchers because the historical growth in the amount of RAM per CPU core has now stopped. Indeed, the current trend toward multi-core CPUs now threatens to take us backwards. This article makes an original contribution to the design of disk-based parallel search algorithms. It presents a survey of disk-based techniques side-by-side, for the first time. This allows researchers to choose from a menu of techniques, and also to create new hybrid algorithms from the building blocks presented here.