SOSP2021

Random Walks on Huge Graphs at Cache Efficiency

Ke Yang, Xiaosong Ma, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Kang Chen, Yongwei Wu

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Abstract

Data-intensive applications dominated by random accesses to large working sets fail to utilize the computing power of modern processors. Graph random walk, an indispensable workhorse for many important graph processing and learning applications, is one prominent case of such applications. Existing graph random walk systems are currently unable to match the GPU-side node embedding training speed.