Automatic Code Generation for High-Performance Graph Algorithms

Graph problems are common across many fields, from scientific computing to social sciences. Despite their importance and the attention received, implementing graph algorithms effectively on modern computing systems remains a challenging task that requires significant programming effort and generally...

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Published in:2023 32nd International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT) pp. 14 - 26
Main Authors: Peng, Zhen, Ashraf, Rizwan A., Guo, Luanzheng, Tian, Ruiqin, Kestor, Gokcen
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 21.10.2023
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code generation
Codes
compiler
DSL
graph algorithms
Linear algebra
masking
optimization
Programming
Scientific computing
Semantics
semiring
Social sciences
sparse linear algebra
triangle counting
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Abstract Graph problems are common across many fields, from scientific computing to social sciences. Despite their importance and the attention received, implementing graph algorithms effectively on modern computing systems remains a challenging task that requires significant programming effort and generally results in customized implementations. Current computing and memory hierarchies are not architected for irregular computations, resulting performance that is far from the theoretical architectural peak. In this paper, we propose a compiler framework to simplify the development of graph algorihtm implementations that can achieve high performance on modern computing systems. We provide a high-level domain specific language (DSL) to represent graph algorithms through sparse linear algebra expressions and graph primitives including semiring and masking. The compiler leverages the semantics information expressed through the DSL during the optimization and code transformation passes, resulting in more efficient IR passed to the compiler backend. In particular, we introduce an Index Tree Dialect that preserves the semantic information of the graph algorithm to perform high-level, domain-specific optimizations, including workspace transformation, two-phase computation, and automatic parallelization. We demonstrate that this work outperforms state-of-the-art graph libraries LAGraph by up to 3.7 × speedup in semiring operations, 2.19 ×speedup in an important sparse computational kernel, and 9.05 × speedup in graph processing algorithms.
AbstractList Graph problems are common across many fields, from scientific computing to social sciences. Despite their importance and the attention received, implementing graph algorithms effectively on modern computing systems remains a challenging task that requires significant programming effort and generally results in customized implementations. Current computing and memory hierarchies are not architected for irregular computations, resulting performance that is far from the theoretical architectural peak. In this paper, we propose a compiler framework to simplify the development of graph algorihtm implementations that can achieve high performance on modern computing systems. We provide a high-level domain specific language (DSL) to represent graph algorithms through sparse linear algebra expressions and graph primitives including semiring and masking. The compiler leverages the semantics information expressed through the DSL during the optimization and code transformation passes, resulting in more efficient IR passed to the compiler backend. In particular, we introduce an Index Tree Dialect that preserves the semantic information of the graph algorithm to perform high-level, domain-specific optimizations, including workspace transformation, two-phase computation, and automatic parallelization. We demonstrate that this work outperforms state-of-the-art graph libraries LAGraph by up to 3.7 × speedup in semiring operations, 2.19 ×speedup in an important sparse computational kernel, and 9.05 × speedup in graph processing algorithms.
Author Peng, Zhen
Guo, Luanzheng
Tian, Ruiqin
Ashraf, Rizwan A.
Kestor, Gokcen
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compiler
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graph algorithms
Linear algebra
masking
optimization
Programming
Scientific computing
Semantics
semiring
Social sciences
sparse linear algebra
triangle counting
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