Arabesque: A System for Distributed Graph Mining

Arabesque: A System For Distributed Graph Mining - Teixeira et al. 2015 We've studied graph computation systems before in The Morning Paper: systems such as Pregel, Giraph and GraphLab that provide vertex-centric programming models ('think like a vertex') on top of a Bulk Synchronous Parallel compute model. We've also seen some of the limitations of … Continue reading Arabesque: A System for Distributed Graph Mining

Blogel: A Block-Centric Framework for Distributed Computation on Real-World Graphs

Blogel: A Block-Centric Framework for Distributed Computation on Real-World Graphs - Yan et al. 2014 We've looked at a lot of different Graph-processing systems over the last couple of weeks (onto a new topic next week I promise!), and despite a variety of different implementation and execution models, one thing they all have in common … Continue reading Blogel: A Block-Centric Framework for Distributed Computation on Real-World Graphs

FlashGraph: Processing Billion Node Graphs on an Array of Commodity SSDs

FlashGraph: Processing Billion Node Graphs on an Array of Commodity SSDs - Zheng et al. The Web Data Commons project is the largest web corpus available to the public. Their hyperlink (page) graph dataset contains 3.4B vertices and 129B edges contained in over 1TB of data, and a graph diameter of 650. To the best … Continue reading FlashGraph: Processing Billion Node Graphs on an Array of Commodity SSDs

GraphX: Graph Processing in a Distributed Dataflow Framework

GraphX: Graph Processing in a Distributed Dataflow Framework - Gonzalez et al. 2014 This is the second of two weeks dedicated to graph processing. So far in this mini-series we've looked at what we know about networks of complex systems and graphs that model the real-world; Google's Pregel which led to a whole set of … Continue reading GraphX: Graph Processing in a Distributed Dataflow Framework

PowerGraph: Distributed Graph-Parallel Computation on Natural Graphs

PowerGraph: Distributed Graph-Parallel Computation on Natural Graphs - Gonzalez et al. 2012 A lot of the time, we want to perform computations on graphs that model the real world. As we saw in Exploring Complex Networks, such graphs often follow a power-law degree distribution (i.e., a few nodes are very highly connected, and many nodes … Continue reading PowerGraph: Distributed Graph-Parallel Computation on Natural Graphs

Distributed GraphLab: A framework for machine learning and data mining in the cloud

Distributed GraphLab: A framework for machine learning and data mining in the cloud - Low et al. 2012 Two years on from the initial GraphLab paper we looked at yesterday comes this extension to support distributed graph processing for larger graphs, including data mining use cases. In this paper, we extend the GraphLab framework to … Continue reading Distributed GraphLab: A framework for machine learning and data mining in the cloud