Document Type
Conference Paper
Department/Unit
Department of Computer Science
Title
Improving large graph processing on partitioned graphs in the cloud
Language
English
Abstract
As the study of large graphs over hundreds of gigabytes becomes increasingly popular for various data-intensive applications in cloud computing, developing large graph processing systems has become a hot and fruitful research area. Many of those existing systems support a vertex-oriented execution model and allow users to develop custom logics on vertices. However, the inherently random access pattern on the vertex-oriented computation generates a significant amount of network traffic. While graph partitioning is known to be effective to reduce network traffic in graph processing, there is little attention given to how graph partitioning can be effectively integrated into large graph processing in the cloud environment. In this paper, we develop a novel graph partitioning framework to improve the network performance of graph partitioning itself, partitioned graph storage and vertex-oriented graph processing. All optimizations are specifically designed for the cloud network environment. In experiments, we develop a system prototype following Pregel (the latest vertex-oriented graph engine by Google), and extend it with our graph partitioning framework. We conduct the experiments with a real-world social network and synthetic graphs over 100GB each in a local cluster and on Amazon EC2. Our experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of our graph partitioning framework, and the effectiveness of network performance aware optimizations on the large graph processing engine. © 2012 ACM.
Keywords
Cloud computing, Data center network, Graph partitioning, Large graph processing
Publication Date
2012
Source Publication Title
Proceedings of the Third ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing
Start Page
1
End Page
13
Conference Location
San Jose, United States
Publisher
ACM
DOI
10.1145/2391229.2391232
Link to Publisher's Edition
ISBN (print)
9781450317610
Recommended Citation
Chen, Rishan, Xuetian Weng, Bingsheng He, Mao Yang, Byron Choi, and Xiaoming Li. "Improving large graph processing on partitioned graphs in the cloud." Proceedings of the Third ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (2012): 1-13.