SC10 Birds-of-a-Feather Talk: Unveiling the First Graph 500 List

Abstract

Data intensive supercomputer applications are increasingly important HPC workloads, but are ill suited for platforms designed for 3D physics simulations. Current benchmarks and performance metrics do not provide useful information on the suitability of supercomputing systems for data intensive applications. A new set of benchmarks is needed in order to guide the design of hardware architectures and software systems intended to support such applications and to help procurements. Graph algorithms are a core part of many analytics workloads. Backed by a steering committee of over 30 international HPC experts from academia, industry, and national laboratories, Graph 500 will establish a set of large-scale benchmarks for these applications. This BOF will unveil the first Graph 500 list, and discuss both today’s Graph 500 benchmark and the evolution of that benchmark going forward. The Graph 500 steering committee is in the process of developing comprehensive benchmarks to address three application kernels: concurrent search, optimization (single source shortest path), and edge-oriented (maximal independent set). Further, we are in the process of addressing five graph-related business areas: Cybersecurity, Medical Informatics, Data Enrichment, Social Networks, and Symbolic Networks. The BOF will offer a forum for community and provide a rallying point for data intensive supercomputing problems, and follows the introduction of the Graph 500 at ISC2010. This is the first serious approach to complement the Top 500 with data intensive applications. Additionally, we are working with the SPEC committee to include our benchmark in their CPU benchmark suite. We anticipate the list will rotate between ISC and SC in future years. More information can be found at: www.graph500.org

David A. Bader

Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute for Data Science

David A. Bader is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology.