Vertical, Temporal, and Horizontal Scaling of Hierarchical Hypersparse GraphBLAS Matrices

Jeremy Kepner, Tim Davis, Chansup Byun, William Arcand, David Bestor, William Bergeron, Vijay Gadepally, Michael Houle, Matthew Hubbell, Michael Jones, Anna Klein, Lauren Milechin, Julie Mullen, Andrew Prout, Albert Reuther, Antonio Rosa, Siddharth Samsi, Charles Yee, Peter Michaleas

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Abstract

Hypersparse matrices are a powerful enabler for a variety of network, health, finance, and social applications. Hierarchical hypersparse GraphBLAS matrices enable rapid streaming updates while preserving algebraic analytic power and convenience. In many contexts, the rate of these updates sets the bounds on performance. This paper explores hierarchical hypersparse update performance on a variety of hardware with identical software configurations. The high-level language bindings of the GraphBLAS readily enable performance experiments on simultaneous diverse hardware. The best single process performance measured was 4,000,000 updates per second. The best single node performance measured was 170,000,000 updates per second. The hardware used spans nearly a decade and allows a direct comparison of hardware improvements for this computation over this time range; showing a 2x increase in single-core performance, a 3x increase in single process performance, and a 5x increase in single node performance. Running on nearly 2,000 MIT SuperCloud nodes simultaneously achieved a sustained update rate of over 200,000,000,000 updates per second. Hierarchical hypersparse GraphBLAS allows the MIT SuperCloud to analyze extremely large streaming network data sets.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2021 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference, HPEC 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781665423694
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event2021 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference, HPEC 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: Sep 20 2021Sep 24 2021

Publication series

Name2021 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference, HPEC 2021

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference, HPEC 2021
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period09/20/2109/24/21

Keywords

  • GraphBLAS
  • horizontal scaling
  • hypersparse matrices
  • streaming graphs
  • vertical scaling

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