Algorithms (Oct 2013)

Multi-Threading a State-of-the-Art Maximum Clique Algorithm

  • Patrick Prosser,
  • Ciaran McCreesh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/a6040618
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 4
pp. 618 – 635

Abstract

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We present a threaded parallel adaptation of a state-of-the-art maximum clique algorithm for dense, computationally challenging graphs. We show that near-linear speedups are achievable in practice and that superlinear speedups are common. We include results for several previously unsolved benchmark problems.

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