{"title":"An Efficient Parallel Trust-Based Recommendation Method on Multicores","authors":"Huafeng Liu, L. Jing, Miaomiao Cheng","doi":"10.1109/HPGDMP.2016.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPGDMP.2016.6","url":null,"abstract":"With the significant advances in online social networks which provide precious knowledge for personalized recommendation, it is necessary to design effective and efficient method to deal with such data. In this paper, we focus on the recommendation system to integrate the preference information and trust relations among users, following the trust-based recommendation model (TbRM) [1] which considers both the user's reputation and his/her nearest neighbors in the social network. Our main contribution is to present a fast algorithm to solve TbRM model with the aid of graph vertex programming (GVP) in parallel. The idea is to represent the preference and trust information as a graph with both user and item vertices, and its edges contain the preference and trust information. In this case, the recommendation problem becomes a graph analysis procedure which iteratively updates the vertices' states in parallel with the aid of predefined vertex state function and edge information. A series of experiments on four real-world recommendation datasets (Ciao, Epinions, Douban and Flixster) have shown that the graph parallel operations obviously speed up the recommendation procedure, e.g., GVP performs 1.1–2.3× faster than the existing popular distributed stochastic gradient descent algorithm with different number of cores.","PeriodicalId":189262,"journal":{"name":"2016 High Performance Graph Data Management and Processing Workshop (HPGDMP)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115398454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Imamura, Yuichiro Yasui, Koji Inoue, Takatsugu Ono, Hiroshi Sasaki, K. Fujisawa
{"title":"Power-Efficient Breadth-First Search with DRAM Row Buffer Locality-Aware Address Mapping","authors":"S. Imamura, Yuichiro Yasui, Koji Inoue, Takatsugu Ono, Hiroshi Sasaki, K. Fujisawa","doi":"10.1109/HPGDMP.2016.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPGDMP.2016.7","url":null,"abstract":"Graph analysis applications have been widely used in real services such as road-traffic analysis and social network services. Breadth-first search (BFS) is one of the most representative algorithms for such applications; therefore, many researchers have tuned it to maximize performance. On the other hand, owing to the strict power constraints of modern HPC systems, it is necessary to improve power efficiency (i.e., performance per watt) when executing BFS. In this work, we focus on the power efficiency of DRAM and investigate the memory access pattern of a state-of-the-art BFS implementation using a cycle-accurate processor simulator. The results reveal that the conventional address mapping schemes of modern memory controllers do not efficiently exploit row buffers in DRAM. Thus, we propose a new scheme called per-row channel interleaving and improve the DRAM power efficiency by 30.3% compared to a conventional scheme for a certain simulator setting. Moreover, we demonstrate that this proposed scheme is effective for various configurations of memory controllers.","PeriodicalId":189262,"journal":{"name":"2016 High Performance Graph Data Management and Processing Workshop (HPGDMP)","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123626827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distributed Multithreaded Breadth-First Search on Large Graphs Using DXGraph","authors":"Stefan Nothaas, Kevin Beineke, M. Schöttner","doi":"10.1109/HPGDMP.2016.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPGDMP.2016.5","url":null,"abstract":"Interactive graph applications are often generating irregular access patterns on very large graphs with trillions of edges and billions of vertices. In order to provide short response times for interactive queries, all these small data objects need to be stored in memory. DXRAM is a distributed in-memory system optimized to efficiently manage large amounts of small data objects. In this paper, we present DXGraph, an extension to allow graph processing on DXRAM storage nodes. For a natural graph representation, each vertex is stored as an object. We describe DXGraph's implementation of a breadth-first search (BFS) algorithm, as specified by the Graph500 benchmark. The preliminary evaluation of the BFS algorithm shows that DXGraph's implementation is up to five times faster than Grappa's and GraphLab's with a peak throughput of over 323 million traversed edges per second.","PeriodicalId":189262,"journal":{"name":"2016 High Performance Graph Data Management and Processing Workshop (HPGDMP)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114853909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}