151. GraphChallenge.org Triangle Counting Performance
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Samsi, Siddharth, Kepner, Jeremy, Gadepally, Vijay, Hurley, Michael, Jones, Michael, Kao, Edward, Mohindra, Sanjeev, Reuther, Albert, Smith, Steven, Song, William, Staheli, Diane, and Monticciolo, Paul
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Computer Science - Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing ,Computer Science - Performance - Abstract
The rise of graph analytic systems has created a need for new ways to measure and compare the capabilities of graph processing systems. The MIT/Amazon/IEEE Graph Challenge has been developed to provide a well-defined community venue for stimulating research and highlighting innovations in graph analysis software, hardware, algorithms, and systems. GraphChallenge.org provides a wide range of pre-parsed graph data sets, graph generators, mathematically defined graph algorithms, example serial implementations in a variety of languages, and specific metrics for measuring performance. The triangle counting component of GraphChallenge.org tests the performance of graph processing systems to count all the triangles in a graph and exercises key graph operations found in many graph algorithms. In 2017, 2018, and 2019 many triangle counting submissions were received from a wide range of authors and organizations. This paper presents a performance analysis of the best performers of these submissions. These submissions show that their state-of-the-art triangle counting execution time, $T_{\rm tri}$, is a strong function of the number of edges in the graph, $N_e$, which improved significantly from 2017 ($T_{\rm tri} \approx (N_e/10^8)^{4/3}$) to 2018 ($T_{\rm tri} \approx N_e/10^9$) and remained comparable from 2018 to 2019. Graph Challenge provides a clear picture of current graph analysis systems and underscores the need for new innovations to achieve high performance on very large graphs., Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, 121 references, to be submitted to IEEE HPEC 2020. This work reports new updated results on prior work reported in arXiv:1805.09675 & arXiv:1708.06866
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- 2020
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