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STREAMER: A distributed framework for incremental closeness centrality computation

  • Ohio State University

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Abstract

Networks are commonly used to model the traffic patterns, social interactions, or web pages. The nodes in a network do not possess the same characteristics: some nodes are naturally more connected and some nodes can be more important. Closeness centrality (CC) is a global metric that quantifies how important is a given node in the network. When the network is dynamic and keeps changing, the relative importance of the nodes also changes. The best known algorithm to compute the CC scores makes it impractical to recompute them from scratch after each modification. In this paper, we propose Streamer, a distributed memory framework for incrementally maintaining the closeness centrality scores of a network upon changes. It leverages pipelined and replicated parallelism and takes NUMA effects into account. It speeds up the maintenance of the CC of a real graph with 916K vertices and 4.3M edges by a factor of 497 using a 64 nodes cluster.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2013 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2013
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Print)9781479908981
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event15th IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2013 - Indianapolis, IN, United States
Duration: Sep 23 2013Sep 27 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC
ISSN (Print)1552-5244

Conference

Conference15th IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityIndianapolis, IN
Period09/23/1309/27/13

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