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Contraction Hierarchies (CH) (Geisberger et al., 2008) is one of the most widely used algorithms for shortest-path queries on road networks. Compared to Dijkstra's algorithm, CH enables orders of magnitude faster query performance through a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Zijin Wan , Xiaojun Dong , Letong Wang , Enzuo Zhu , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

We develop an efficient parallel algorithm for answering shortest-path queries in planar graphs and implement it on a multi-node CPU/GPU clusters. The algorithm uses a divide-and-conquer approach for decomposing the input graph into small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-26 Guillaume Chapuis , Hristo Djidjev

Since the first solutions finding minimally weighted routes in weighted digraphs, a plethora of literature has appeared improving the performance of shortest-path queries for use in real-world applications. In this paper, we detail how an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Jacob Turner

We present a shared memory implementation of a parallel algorithm, called delta-stepping, for solving the single source shortest path problem for directed and undirected graphs. In order to reduce synchronization costs we make some…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-21 M. Kranjčević , D. Palossi , S. Pintarelli

A* is a best-first search algorithm for finding optimal-cost paths in graphs. A* benefits significantly from parallelism because in many applications, A* is limited by memory usage, so distributed memory implementations of A* that use all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Alex Fukunaga , Adi Botea , Yuu Jinnai , Akihiro Kishimoto

We use exponential start time clustering to design faster and more work-efficient parallel graph algorithms involving distances. Previous algorithms usually rely on graph decomposition routines with strict restrictions on the diameters of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Gary L. Miller , Richard Peng , Adrian Vladu , Shen Chen Xu

A modified version of the Dijkstra algorithm using an inventive contraction hierarchy is proposed. The algorithm considers a directed acyclic graph with a conical or semi-circular structure for which a pair of edges is chosen iteratively…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Ugochi A. Okengwu , Enoch O. Nwachukwu , Emmanuel N. Osegi

Modern hardware systems are heavily underutilized when running large-scale graph applications. While many in-memory graph frameworks have made substantial progress in optimizing these applications, we show that it is still possible to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Yunming Zhang , Vladimir Kiriansky , Charith Mendis , Matei Zaharia , Saman Amarasinghe

Dijkstra's algorithm for the Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem is notoriously hard to parallelize in $o(n)$ depth, $n$ being the number of vertices in the input graph, without increasing the required parallel work unreasonably.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Michael Kainer , Jesper Larsson Träff

This paper initiates the study of I/O algorithms (minimizing cache misses) from the perspective of fine-grained complexity (conditional polynomial lower bounds). Specifically, we aim to answer why sparse graph problems are so hard, and why…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Erik D. Demaine , Andrea Lincoln , Quanquan C. Liu , Jayson Lynch , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

This paper investigates the parallelization of Dijkstra's algorithm for computing the shortest paths in large-scale graphs using MPI and CUDA. The primary hypothesis is that by leveraging parallel computing, the computation time can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Boyang Song

Graph partitioning has many applications. We consider the acceleration of shortest path queries in road networks using Customizable Contraction Hierarchies (CCH). It is based on computing a nested dissection order by recursively dividing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Lars Gottesbüren , Michael Hamann , Tim Niklas Uhl , Dorothea Wagner

Multi-core architectures feature an intricate hierarchy of cache memories, with multiple levels and sizes. To adequately decompose an application according to the traits of a particular memory hierarchy is a cumbersome task that may be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Hervé Paulino , Nuno Delgado

Finding maximum-cardinality matchings in undirected graphs is arguably one of the most central graph primitives. For $m$-edge and $n$-vertex graphs, it is well-known to be solvable in $O(m\sqrt{n})$ time; however, for several applications…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-24 George B. Mertzios , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

We present efficient parallel algorithms for computing maximal matchings in hypergraphs. Our algorithm finds locally maximal edges in the hypergraph and adds them in parallel to the matching. In the CRCW PRAM models our algorithms achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Henrik Reinstädtler , Christian Schulz , Nodari Sitchinava , Fabian Walliser

In the last decade, there has been a substantial amount of research in finding routing algorithms designed specifically to run on real-world graphs. In 2010, Abraham et al. showed upper bounds on the query time in terms of a graph's highway…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Colin White

The approximate minimum degree algorithm is widely used before numerical factorization to reduce fill-in for sparse matrices. While considerable attention has been given to the numerical factorization process, less focus has been placed on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yen-Hsiang Chang , Aydın Buluç , James Demmel

We consider the problem of quickly computing shortest paths in weighted graphs given auxiliary data derived in an expensive preprocessing phase. By adding a fast weight-customization phase, we extend Contraction Hierarchies by Geisberger et…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-24 Julian Dibbelt , Ben Strasser , Dorothea Wagner

Large-scale graph processing has drawn great attention in recent years. Most of the modern-day datacenter workloads can be represented in the form of Graph Processing such as MapReduce etc. Consequently, a lot of designs for Domain-Specific…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Khushal Sethi

We present shared-memory parallel methods for Maximal Clique Enumeration (MCE) from a graph. MCE is a fundamental and well-studied graph analytics task, and is a widely used primitive for identifying dense structures in a graph. Due to its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Apurba Das , Seyed-Vahid Sanei-Mehri , Srikanta Tirthapura
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