LGP-SA：Graph partition algorithm based on simulated annealing in large-scale graph processing

Abstract

Distributed computing for large-scale graph data need to partition the graph firstly. The current methods of large-scale graph partitioning is to reduce the edge cut in order to lessen communication overhead by using vertex transfer strategies，but easily to fall into local optimum. Simulated annealing has a great probability to avoid the trap of local optimum and prevent vertices from invalid transfer which was introduced to transfer vertices. This method decreased communication overhead greatly. Comparative experiments show that the proposed algorithm has made a great improvement in reducing edge cut rates in large scale graph partition field. PageRank algorithm was also used to verify the effectiveness and feasibility of this method.

Keywords

• graph partition
• Giraph
• simulated annealing
• large-scale graph
• BSP