A Hybrid Approach to Processing Big Data Graphs on Memory-Restricted Systems

Harshvardhan, Brandon West, Adam Fidel, Nancy M. Amato, Lawrence Rauchwerger

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Abstract

With the advent of big-data, processing large graphs quickly has become increasingly important. Most existing approaches either utilize in-memory processing techniques that can only process graphs that fit completely in RAM, or disk-based techniques that sacrifice performance. In this work, we propose a novel RAM-Disk hybrid approach to graph processing that can scale well from a single shared-memory node to large distributed-memory systems. It works by partitioning the graph into sub graphs that fit in RAM and uses a paging-like technique to load sub graphs. We show that without modifying the algorithms, this approach can scale from small memory-constrained systems (such as tablets) to large-scale distributed machines with 16, 000+ cores.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2015 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages799-808
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9781479986491
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2015
Externally publishedYes

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