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More and more large data collections are gathered worldwide in various IT systems. Many of them possess the networked nature and need to be processed and analysed as graph structures. Due to their size they require very often usage of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Tomasz Kajdanowicz , Przemyslaw Kazienko , Wojciech Indyk

Breadth-first Search (BFS) is one of the most important graph processing subroutines, especially for computing the unweighted distance. Many applications may require running BFS from multiple sources. Sequentially, when running BFS on a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Letong Wang , Guy Blelloch , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

We present a work-efficient parallel level-synchronous Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithm for shared-memory architectures which achieves the theoretical lower bound on parallel running time. The optimality holds regardless of the shape of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Jesmin Jahan Tithi , Yonatan Fogel , Rezaul Chowdhury

An effective way to reduce clutter in a graph drawing that has (many) crossings is to group edges that travel in parallel into \emph{bundles}. Each edge can participate in many such bundles. Any crossing in this bundled graph occurs between…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Steven Chaplick , Thomas C. van Dijk , Myroslav Kryven , Ji-won Park , Alexander Ravsky , Alexander Wolff

Breadth First Search (BFS) is a building block for graph algorithms and has recently been used for large scale analysis of information in a variety of applications including social networks, graph databases and web searching. Due to its…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Mireya Paredes , Graham Riley , Mikel Lujan

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

Breadth-first search (BFS) is known as a basic search strategy for learning graph properties. As the scales of graph databases have increased tremendously in recent years, large-scale graphs G are often disk-resident. Obtaining the BFS…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Xiaolong Wan , Xixian Han

The increasing scale and wealth of inter-connected data, such as those accrued by social network applications, demand the design of new techniques and platforms to efficiently derive actionable knowledge from large-scale graphs. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Abdullah Gharaibeh , Tahsin Reza , Elizeu Santos-Neto , Lauro Beltrao Costa , Scott Sallinen , Matei Ripeanu

With the growing reliance of modern supercomputers on accelerator-based architectures such a GPUs, the development and optimization of electronic structure methods to exploit these massively parallel resources has become a recent priority.…

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

Linear-time algorithms that are traditionally used to shuffle data on CPUs, such as the method of Fisher-Yates, are not well suited to implementation on GPUs due to inherent sequential dependencies, and existing parallel shuffling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Rory Mitchell , Daniel Stokes , Eibe Frank , Geoffrey Holmes

This note recapitulates an algorithmic observation for ordered Depth-First Search (DFS) in directed graphs that immediately leads to a parallel algorithm with linear speed-up for a range of processors for non-sparse graphs. The note extends…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-13 Jesper Larsson Träff

The increasing use of heterogeneous embedded systems with multi-core CPUs and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) presents important challenges in effectively exploiting pipeline, task and data-level parallelism to meet throughput requirements…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-12-01 Shuoxin Lin , Jiahao Wu , Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya

The Breadth-First Search (BFS) algorithm is an important building block for graph analysis of large datasets. The BFS parallelisation has been shown to be challenging because of its inherent characteristics, including irregular memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Mireya Paredes , Graham Riley , Mikel Lujan

Graph processors such as Graphcore's Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) are part of the major new wave of novel computer architecture for AI, and have a general design with massively parallel computation, distributed on-chip memory and very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Joseph Ortiz , Mark Pupilli , Stefan Leutenegger , Andrew J. Davison

We introduce Breadth-First Pipeline Parallelism, a novel training schedule which optimizes the combination of pipeline and data parallelism. Breadth-First Pipeline Parallelism lowers training time, cost and memory usage by combining a high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Joel Lamy-Poirier

Breadth-First Search (BFS) is a fundamental graph kernel that underpins a wide range of applications. While modern GPUs provide specialised Matrix-Multiply-Accumulate (MMA) units, e.g., Tensor Cores (TC), with extremely high throughput,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Deniz Elbek , Kamer Kaya

This paper presents a novel meta algorithm, Partition-Merge (PM), which takes existing centralized algorithms for graph computation and makes them distributed and faster. In a nutshell, PM divides the graph into small subgraphs using our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-25 Vincent Blondel , Kyomin Jung , Pushmeet Kohli , Devavrat Shah

The BFS algorithm is a basic graph data processing algorithm and many other graph data processing algorithms have similar architectural features with BFS algorithm and can be built on the basis of BFS algorithm model. We analyze the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Chenglong Zhang

On a GPU cluster, the ratio of high computing power to communication bandwidth makes scaling breadth-first search (BFS) on a scale-free graph extremely challenging. By separating high and low out-degree vertices, we present an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Yuechao Pan , Roger Pearce , John D. Owens