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Although Breadth-First Search (BFS) has several advantages over Depth-First Search (DFS) its prohibitive space requirements have meant that algorithm designers often pass it over in favor of DFS. To address this shortcoming, we introduce a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-07-05 Srinivas Nedunuri , William R. Cook , Douglas R. Smith

Breadth First Search (BFS) is a widely used approach for sampling large unknown Internet topologies. Its main advantage over random walks and other exploration techniques is that a BFS sample is a plausible graph on its own, and therefore…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-02-23 Maciej Kurant , Athina Markopoulou , Patrick Thiran

High-performance analysis of unstructured data like graphs now is critical for applications ranging from business intelligence to genome analysis. Towards this, data centers hold large graphs in memory to serve multiple concurrent queries…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Emory Smith , Shannon Kuntz , Jason Riedy , Martin Deneroff

For parallel breadth first search (BFS) algorithm on large-scale distributed memory systems, communication often costs significantly more than arithmetic and limits the scalability of the algorithm. In this paper we sufficiently reduce the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-29 Huiwei Lv , Guangming Tan , Mingyu Chen , Ninghui Sun

Recent neural networks (NNs) with self-attention exhibit competitiveness across different AI domains, but the essential attention mechanism brings massive computation and memory demands. To this end, various sparsity patterns are introduced…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haibin Wu , Wenming Li , Kai Yan , Zhihua Fan , Peiyang Wu , Yuqun Liu , Yanhuan Liu , Ziqing Qiang , Meng Wu , Kunming Liu , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

Breadth First Search (BFS) and other graph traversal techniques are widely used for measuring large unknown graphs, such as online social networks. It has been empirically observed that an incomplete BFS is biased toward high degree nodes.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-02-23 Maciej Kurant , Athina Markopoulou , Patrick Thiran

Large scale-free graphs are famously difficult to process efficiently: the skewed vertex degree distribution makes it difficult to obtain balanced partitioning. Our research instead aims to turn this into an advantage by partitioning the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-05 Scott Sallinen , Abdullah Gharaibeh , Matei Ripeanu

Graph-searching algorithms play a crucial role in various computational domains, enabling efficient exploration and pathfinding in structured data. Traditional approaches, such as Depth-First Search (DFS) and Breadth-First Search (BFS),…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Rowanda Ahmed , Belaynesh Chekol , Mahmoud Alsaleh

Depth-first search (DFS) is the basis for many efficient graph algorithms. We introduce general techniques for the efficient implementation of DFS-based graph algorithms and exemplify them on three algorithms for computing strongly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Kurt Mehlhorn , Stefan Näher , Peter Sanders

Enumerating consistent global states of a computation is a fundamental problem in parallel computing with applications to debug- ging, testing and runtime verification of parallel programs. Breadth-first search (BFS) enumeration is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Himanshu Chauhan , Vijay Garg

Graphs are central to modeling relationships in scientific computing, data analysis, and AI/ML, but their growing scale can exceed the memory and compute capacity of single nodes, requiring distributed solutions. Existing distributed graph…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Karame Mohammadiporshokooh , Panagiotis Syskakis , Hartmut Kaiser

BFS (Breadth-First Search) is a typical graph algorithm used as a key component of many graph applications. However, current distributed parallel BFS implementations suffer from irregular data communication with large volumes of transfers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xinbiao Gan

We present an efficient distributed memory parallel algorithm for computing connected components in undirected graphs based on Shiloach-Vishkin's PRAM approach. We discuss multiple optimization techniques that reduce communication volume as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Chirag Jain , Patrick Flick , Tony Pan , Oded Green , Srinivas Aluru

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) provides massive aggregated memory bandwidth by exposing multiple memory channels to the processing units. To achieve high performance, an accelerator built on top of an FPGA configured with HBM (i.e., FPGA-HBM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Kexin Li , Chenhao Liu , Zhiyuan Shao , Zeke Wang , Minkang Wu , Jiajie Chen , Xiaofei Liao , Hai Jin

Evolving graphs arise in problems where interrelations between data change over time. We present a breadth first search (BFS) algorithm for evolving graphs that computes the most direct influences between nodes at two different times. Using…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-07 Jiahao Chen , Weijian Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel method to compute triangle counting on GPUs. Unlike previous formulations of graph matching, our approach is BFS-based by traversing the graph in an all-source-BFS manner and thus can be mapped onto GPUs in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Leyuan Wang , John D. Owens

Graph searching is one of the simplest and most widely used tools in graph algorithms. Every graph search method is defined using some particular selection rule, and the analysis of the corresponding vertex orderings can aid greatly in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Matjaž Krnc , Nevena Pivač

This chapter studies the problem of traversing large graphs using the breadth-first search order on distributed-memory supercomputers. We consider both the traditional level-synchronous top-down algorithm as well as the recently discovered…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Aydin Buluc , Scott Beamer , Kamesh Madduri , Krste Asanovic , David Patterson

In this paper, we propose a GPU-efficient subgraph isomorphism algorithm using the Gunrock graph analytic framework, GSM (Gunrock Subgraph Matching), to compute graph matching on GPUs. In contrast to previous approaches on the CPU which are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Leyuan Wang , John D. Owens

A common technique to speed up shortest path queries in graphs is to use a bidirectional search, i.e., performing a forward search from the start and a backward search from the destination until a common vertex on a shortest path is found.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Thomas Bläsius , Marcus Wilhelm