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Towards scaling community detection on distributed-memory heterogeneous systems

Abstract

Distributed multi-GPU systems pose significant challenges and opportunities for efficient execution of parallel applications. Graph algorithms are generally characterized by irregular memory accesses, low computation to communication ratios, and load balancing problems that are especially hard to address on multi-GPU systems. Graph community detection is an important problem in the emerging domain of graph analytics with numerous applications. In this paper, we present our ongoing work on distributed-memory multi-GPU implementation for graph community detection. Our work parallelizes the widely used (albeit serial) Louvain method on distributed multi-GPU platforms. Supported by an extensive set of experiments on a multi-GPU enabled supercomputer (OLCF Summit) and a single compute node (Nvidia DGX-2®), we demonstrate competitive performance to existing distributed-memory CPU-based implementation, and up to 6.5 better results than Nvidia RAPIDS® CUGRAPH. To the best of our knowledge, this work represents the first effort for community detection on distributed multi-GPU systems. Our approach and related findings can be extended to numerous other iterative graph algorithms on multi-GPU systems.

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Gawande, Nitin, Ghosh, Sayan, Halappanavar, Mahantesh, Tumeo, Antonino, Kalyanaraman, Ananth. 2022-02-22. Towards scaling community detection on distributed-memory heterogeneous systems. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parco.2022.102898

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