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Deterministic Parallel Hypergraph Partitioning

Data Structures and Algorithms 2021-12-24 v1 Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing

Abstract

Balanced hypergraph partitioning is a classical NP-hard optimization problem with applications in various domains such as VLSI design, simulating quantum circuits, optimizing data placement in distributed databases or minimizing communication volume in high-performance computing. Engineering parallel heuristics for this problem is a topic of recent research. Most of them are non-deterministic though. In this work, we design and implement a highly scalable deterministic algorithm in the state-of-the-art parallel partitioning framework Mt-KaHyPar. On our extensive set of benchmark instances, it achieves similar partition quality and performance as a comparable but non-deterministic configuration of Mt-KaHyPar and outperforms the only other existing parallel deterministic algorithm BiPart regarding partition quality, running time and parallel speedups.

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@article{arxiv.2112.12704,
  title  = {Deterministic Parallel Hypergraph Partitioning},
  author = {Lars Gottesbüren and Michael Hamann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.12704},
  year   = {2021}
}