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Solving Large, Irregular Graph Problems Using Adaptive Work-Stealing

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Solving Large, Irregular Graph Problems Using Adaptive Work-Stealing
Solving large, irregular graph problems efficiently is challenging. Current software systems and commodity multiprocessors do not support fine-grained, irregular parallelism well. We present XWS, the X10 Work Stealing framework, an open-source runtime for the parallel programming language X10 and a library to be used directly by application writers. XWS extends the Cilk work-stealing framework with several features necessary to efficiently implement graph algorithms, viz., support for improperly nested procedures, global termination detection, and phased computation. We also present a strategy to adaptively control the granularity of parallel tasks in the work-stealing scheme, depending on the instantaneous size of the work queue. We compare the performance of the XWS implementations of spanning tree algorithms with that of the hand-written C and Cilk implementations using various graph inputs. We show that XWS programs (written in Java) scale and exhibit comparable or better perfo...
Guojing Cong, Sreedhar B. Kodali, Sriram Krishnamo
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Type Conference
Year 2008
Where ICPP
Authors Guojing Cong, Sreedhar B. Kodali, Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Doug Lea, Vijay A. Saraswat, Tong Wen
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