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A Work-Efficient Algorithm for Parallel Unordered Depth-First Search

Abstract

Advances in processing power and memory technology have made multicore computers an important platform for high-performance graph-search (or graph-traversal) algorithms. Since the introduction of multicore, much progress has been made to improve parallel breadth-first search. However, less attention has been given to algorithms for unordered or loosely ordered traversals. We present a parallel algorithm for unordered depth-first-search on graphs. We prove that the algorithm is work efficient in a realistic algorithmic model that accounts for important scheduling costs. This work-efficiency result applies to all graphs, including those with high diameter and high out-degree vertices. The algorithmic techniques behind this result include a new data structure for representing the frontier of vertices in depth-first search, a new amortization technique for controlling excess parallelism, and an adaptation of the lazy-splitting technique to depth first search. We validate the theoretical results with an implementation and experiments. The experiments show that the algorithm performs well on a range of graphs and that it can lead to significant improvements over comparable algorithms.
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hal-01245837 , version 1 (18-12-2015)

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Umut A. Acar, Arthur Charguéraud, Mike Rainey. A Work-Efficient Algorithm for Parallel Unordered Depth-First Search. Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Nov 2015, Austin, Texas, United States. ⟨10.1145/2807591.2807651⟩. ⟨hal-01245837⟩
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