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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

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

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

Probabilistic breadth-first traversals (BPTs) are used in many network science and graph machine learning applications. In this paper, we are motivated by the application of BPTs in stochastic diffusion-based graph problems such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Reece Neff , Mostafa Eghbali Zarch , Marco Minutoli , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Antonino Tumeo , Ananth Kalyanaraman , Michela Becchi

It is well-known since the seventies of last century that Depth First Search (DFS) can be used to compute strongly connected components [RE. Tarjan. SIAM Journal on Computing, 1972] and Breadth First Search (BFS) can be used to compute…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Binh-Minh Bui-Xuan , Michel Habib , Fabien de Montgolfier , Renaud Torfs

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

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

To harness modern multicore processors, it is imperative to develop parallel versions of fundamental algorithms. In this paper, we compare different approaches to parallel best-first search in a shared-memory setting. We present a new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Ethan Burns , Sofia Lemons , Wheeler Ruml , Rong Zhou

Bloom filters are a fundamental data structure for approximate membership queries, with applications ranging from data analytics to databases and genomics. Several variants have been proposed to accommodate parallel architectures. GPUs,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Daniel Jünger , Kevin Kristensen , Yunsong Wang , Xiangyao Yu , Bertil Schmidt

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

We present the results obtained by using an evolution of our CUDA-based solution for the exploration, via a Breadth First Search, of large graphs. This latest version exploits at its best the features of the Kepler architecture and relies…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-24 Mauro Bisson , Massimo Bernaschi , Enrico Mastrostefano

Vectorization and GPUs will profoundly change graph processing. Traditional graph algorithms tuned for 32- or 64-bit based memory accesses will be inefficient on architectures with 512-bit wide (or larger) instruction units that are already…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Maciej Besta , Florian Marending , Edgar Solomonik , Torsten Hoefler

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

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

In this paper we show how graph structure can be used to drastically reduce the computational bottleneck of the Breadth First Search algorithm (the foundation of many graph traversal techniques). In particular, we address parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Damien Fay

Graph algorithms enormously contribute to the domains such as blockchains, social networks, biological networks, telecommunication networks, and several others. The ever-increasing demand of data-volume, as well as speed of such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Bapi Chatterjee , Sathya Peri , Muktikanta Sa

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

Graph processing at scale presents many challenges, including the irregular structure of graphs, the latency-bound nature of graph algorithms, and the overhead associated with distributed execution. While existing frameworks such as Spark…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Karame Mohammadiporshokooh , Panagiotis Syskakis , Andrew Lumsdaine , Hartmut Kaiser

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

We propose two parallel state-space exploration algorithms for hybrid systems with the goal of enhancing performance on multi-core shared memory systems. The first is an adaption of the parallel breadth first search in the SPIN model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Amit Gurung , Arup Deka , Ezio Bartocci , Sergiy Bogomolov , Radu Grosu , Rajarshi Ray