Graph Analysis: New Algorithm Models, New Architectures
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The document discusses new algorithms and architectures for graph analysis on streaming data. It introduces a new algorithm model that allows analysis to run concurrently with graph changes without locking the graph. Some algorithms like degree computation are valid under this model while others like shortest paths may not be. A new architecture called Emu uses lightweight threads that migrate to data, showing better performance on pointer-chasing benchmarks than CPUs by better utilizing memory bandwidth. Overall the document explores new approaches for analyzing massive streaming graphs in real-time.
![Streaming graph analysis
Terminology (not universal):
• Streaming changes into a massive, evolving graph
• Need to handle deletions as well as insertions
Previous STINGER performance results (x - ):
Data ingest > M upd/sec [Ediger, McColl, Poovey, Campbell, &
Bader ]
Clustering coefficients > K upd/sec [R, Meyerhenke, B, E,
& Mattson ]
Connected comp. > M upd/sec [McColl, Green, & B ]
Community clustering > K upd/sec∗
[R & B ]
PageRank Up to × latency improvement [R ]
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![Sample of other execution models
• Put in a query, wait for sufficient data [Phillips, et al.
at Sandia]
• Different but very interesting model.
• Evolving: Sample, accurate w/high-prob.
• Difficult to generalize into graph results (e.g.
shortest path tree).
• Classical: dynamic algorithms, versioned data
• Can require drastically more storage, possibly a copy
of the graph per property, or more overhead for
techniques like read-copy-update.
Generally do not address the latency of computing the
“static” starting point.
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- 1. Graph Analysis: New Algorithm Models, New Architectures E. Jason Riedy and a large supporting cast of students Georgia Institute of Technology ACM Computing Frontiers, May
- 2. Outline Motivation and Applications New Algorithm Model New Architectures Closing New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 4. (insert prefix here)-scale data analysis Cyber-security Identify anomalies, malicious actors Health care Finding outbreaks, population epidemiology Social networks Advertising, searching, grouping Intelligence Decisions at scale, regulating markets, smart & sustainable cities Systems biology Understanding interactions, drug design Power grid Disruptions, conservation Simulation Discrete events, cracking meshes Changes are important. Cannot stop the world... New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 5. Potential Applications • Social Networks • Identify communities, influences, bridges, trends, anomalies (trends before they happen)... • Potential to help social sciences, city planning, and others with large-scale data. • Cyber-security • Determine if new connections can access a device or represent new threat in <5ms... • Is data transfer by a virus / persistent threat? • Bioinformatics, health • Construct gene sequences, analyze protein interactions, map brain interactions • Credit fraud forensics ⇒ detection ⇒ monitoring • Real-time integration of all the customer’s data New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 6. Streaming graph data Network data rates: • Gigabit ethernet: k – . M packets per second • Over flows per second on GigE (< . µs) Person-level data rates: • M posts per day on Twitter ( k / sec) • M posts per minute on Facebook ( k / sec) Should analyze only changes and not entire graph. Throughput & latency trade off and expose different levels of concurrency. www.internetlivestats.com/twitter-statistics/ www.jeffbullas.com/ / / / -awesome-facebook-facts-and-statistics-you-need-to-check-out/ New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 7. Streaming graph analysis Terminology (not universal): • Streaming changes into a massive, evolving graph • Need to handle deletions as well as insertions Previous STINGER performance results (x - ): Data ingest > M upd/sec [Ediger, McColl, Poovey, Campbell, & Bader ] Clustering coefficients > K upd/sec [R, Meyerhenke, B, E, & Mattson ] Connected comp. > M upd/sec [McColl, Green, & B ] Community clustering > K upd/sec∗ [R & B ] PageRank Up to × latency improvement [R ] New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 9. Starting incremental / streaming algorithms • Incremental and streaming algorithms start somewhere. • Initial, static computation can take a rather long time... • During which the graph cannot change? • What about supporting many simultaneous analyses? Data ingest rates, R-MAT into R-MAT, scales & ● ● ● ● ● ● 1e+02 1e+03 1e+04 1e+05 1e+06 1 10 100 1000 10000 1e+05 Batch size Updaterate(upd/s) platform ● Power8 Haswell Haswell−30 What can we run while the graph changes? New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 10. Starting incremental / streaming algorithms • Incremental and streaming algorithms start somewhere. • Initial, static computation can take a rather long time... • During which the graph cannot change? • What about supporting many simultaneous analyses? Graph Changes PageRank Clustering Coefficients Clusters s-t Path What can we run while the graph changes? New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 11. What if we don’t hold up changes? When is an algorithm valid? Analyze concurrently with the graph changes, and produce a result correct for the starting graph and some implicit subset of concurrent changes. • No locking beyond atomic operations. • No versioned data structure. • No stopping. Extreme model for extreme data rates. Chunxing Yin, Riedy, Bader. “Validity of Graph Algorithms on Streaming Data.” . (in submission) New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 12. Sample of other execution models • Put in a query, wait for sufficient data [Phillips, et al. at Sandia] • Different but very interesting model. • Evolving: Sample, accurate w/high-prob. • Difficult to generalize into graph results (e.g. shortest path tree). • Classical: dynamic algorithms, versioned data • Can require drastically more storage, possibly a copy of the graph per property, or more overhead for techniques like read-copy-update. Generally do not address the latency of computing the “static” starting point. New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 13. Algorithm validity in our model: Example. Can you compute degrees in an undirected graph (no self loops) concurrently with changes? Algorithm: Iterate over vertices, count the number of neighbors. Compute deg(v ) Compute deg(v ) delete edge Cannot correspond to an undirected graph at all! Valid for our model? No! Not incorrect, just not valid for our model. New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 14. Algorithm validity in our model: Example. Can you compute degrees in an undirected graph (no self loops) concurrently with changes? Algorithm: Iterate over edges, increment the degrees of the endpoints. Inc deg(v ), deg(v ) (later...) delete edge Corresponds to the beginning graph plus a subset of concurrent changes. Valid for our model? Yes! Undirected stored as directed: skip edges with v ≥ v . New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 15. Algorithm validity in our model s w(e ) = w(e ) = → ∆ = • What is valid? • Typical (direction optimizing) BFS • Shiloach-Vishkin connected components • PageRank, Katz via Jacobi • Label propagation • Triangle counting (carefully!) • Saved decisions (can make a copy)... • Extracting a subgraph or path. • What may be invalid? • Making a decision twice in implementations • ∆-stepping SSSP: Decrease a weight below ∆ • Degree optimization: Cross threshold, miss vertex • Applying old or different information New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 16. Fun properties for one-shot queries Due to Chunxing Yin, under sensible assumptions: . You can produce a single-change stream to demonstrate invalidity. • Idea: Start with a graph that incorporates all the visible changes, introduce the one change at the right time. . Algorithms that produce a subgraph of their input cannot be guaranteed to run concurrently with changes and always produce moment-in-time outputs. • Idea: Any time a snapshot result could happen, delete then re-insert an edge from the output. New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 17. On to streaming... Can we update graph metrics as new data arrives without just re-running? • Track what changed during the one-shot query. • Update locally around those changes, while other changes are occuring. • If the update is valid, can repeat to follow a streaming graph. Initial ∆ Upd. w/∆ ∆ Upd. w/∆ ∆ Examples: PageRank, refinement. Connected components, maintain a spanning forest. New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 18. Open issues Difficult problems: Updating triangle counts efficiently! • Option: re-counting a region around changes, stopping once counts do not change. • Can mis-count on the region’s border, but only at changes. • Next run can fix those... A looser model? Some algorithms essentially copy subgraphs. • What are the size bounds? • Can those bounds characterize algorithms / properties? New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 20. Limitations of current architectures • Graph analysis often uses relatively narrow memory acceses, e.g. separate -byte integers. • Currently under-utilizing memory bandwidth. • One-eighth of a cache line: one-eighth of bandwidth. • Typical DRAM pages are ≥ KiB. Entire page must be powered on for an operation. • New HBM: Kib-wide ⇒ potentially / th BW A new approach from Emu Technology: Lightweight threads migrating to data in narrow-channel DRAM. New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 21. Emu PGAS architecture 1 nodelet Gossamer Core 1 Memory-Side Processor Gossamer Core 4 ... Migration Engine RapidIODisk I/O 8 nodelets per node 64 nodelets per Chick RapidIO Stationary Core • Multithreaded multicore • Memory-side “processor” for atomics, etc. w/NCDIMM • Stationary core for OS • Threads migrate in hardware on reads! New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 22. Emu Chick prototype Experimental system: • Soft processors (Arria FPGAs) • One Gossamer Core (GC) per nodelet, max threadlets • Memory and cores are under-clocked. • Firmware bugs limit inter-node migration, file I/O New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 23. Pointer chasing benchmark Data-dependent loads, fine-grained access Ordered Intra-block shuffle: weak locality Full block shuffle: weak locality Eric Hein, Young, Srinivas Eswar, Jiajia Li, Patrick Lavin, Vuduc, Riedy. “An Initial Characterization of the Emu Chick,” AsHES . New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 24. Pointer Chasing: Intel Xeon Performance varies drastically. New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 25. Pointer Chasing: Emu Chick Matches simulation to a consistent factor of two. Simulation of larger, full Emu systems shows promising results... More later. New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 26. Pointer Chasing: Bandwidth utilization Full shuffle. Measured against STREAM. New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 27. Pointer Chasing: Bandwidth scaling Full machine results. STREAM around GB/s. Still need many threads, but not as many as MTA/XMT. (Thanks to Eric Hein.) New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 28. Pointer Chasing: Bandwidth scaling 1 4 16 64 256 1K 4K 16K 64K 256K 1M 4M Block size (number of 16B elements) 0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 Memorybandwidth(MBs) 1024 threads 1 4 16 64 256 1K 4K 16K 64K 256K 1M 4M Block size (number of 16B elements) peak STREAM bandwidth 2048 threads block_shuffle intra_block_shuffle full_block_shuffle 1 4 16 64 256 1K 4K 16K 64K 256K 1M 4M Block size (number of 16B elements) 4096 threads Pointer Chasing (Emu Chick, 64 nodelets) Full machine results. STREAM around GB/s. Still need many threads, but not as many as MTA/XMT. (Thanks to Eric Hein.) New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 29. Closing
- 30. Closing • Summary • Analysis concurrent with graph change can work. • But not all implementations are valid. • New and novel architectures show promise for fine-grained access and parallelism. • Future work • Track subgraphs / communities for “slow” analyses • Can offload subgraphs to accelerators? • Develop more valid updating methods, approximation results • Experiment with even more new architectures New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /
- 31. Introducing the CRNCH Rogues Gallery A physical & virtual space for hosting novel computing architectures, systems, and accelerators. Host / manage remote access for novel architectures! • Emu Chick • FPGA + HMC: D stacked • FPAA: Analog/Neuromorphic Amortize effort and cost of trying novel architectures. Break the “but it’s too much work” barrier. http://crnch.gatech.edu/rogues-gallery New! And Graphs! — ACM CF, May /