BCSR on GPU: A Way Forward Extreme-scale Graph Processing on Accelerator-enabled Frontier Supercomputer

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Abstract

Handling large graphs in a distributed environment requires effective partitioning across processors and efficient management of local partitions. In 2D partitioning, local graphs often become too sparse, making memory-efficient data structures crucial. Using the Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) format wastes space, especially for > 83% of vertices with empty edges for the sparse graphs. This study explores bit-CSR (BCSR), a modified CSR representation, on GPUs to reduce memory usage in graph computations. We achieved 16.67% memory savings on a sparse rmat dataset with 268 million vertices and 357 million edges, without performance degradation, supported by both theoretical and experimental storage savings of 33%. However, we observed a 1.7× slowdown in degree lookup times due to bitwise operations on AMD CPUs. This analysis highlights the potential of BCSR on GPUs for improving Graph500 benchmark performance on GPU-accelerated systems, such as the Frontier supercomputer.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of SC 2024-W
Subtitle of host publicationWorkshops of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages280-289
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9798350355543
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event2024 Workshops of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC Workshops 2024 - Atlanta, United States
Duration: Nov 17 2024Nov 22 2024

Publication series

NameProceedings of SC 2024-W: Workshops of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

Conference

Conference2024 Workshops of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC Workshops 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta
Period11/17/2411/22/24

Keywords

  • 2D Partitioning
  • AMD GPU
  • Breadth First Search (BFS)
  • Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) Graph
  • HIP
  • Large-scale Graph

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