Graphicionado: A high-performance and energy-efficient accelerator for graph analytics

Tae Jun Ham, Lisa Wu, Narayanan Sundaram, Nadathur Satish, Margaret Rose Martonosi

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

290 Scopus citations

Abstract

Graphs are one of the key data structures for many real-world computing applications and the importance of graph analytics is ever-growing. While existing software graph processing frameworks improve programmability of graph analytics, underlying general purpose processors still limit the performance and energy efficiency of graph analytics. We architect a domain-specific accelerator, Graphicionado, for high-performance, energy-efficient processing of graph analytics workloads. For efficient graph analytics processing, Graphicionado exploits not only data structure-centric datapath specialization, but also memory subsystem specialization, all the while taking advantage of the parallelism inherent in this domain. Graphicionado augments the vertex programming paradigm, allowing different graph analytics applications to be mapped to the same accelerator framework, while maintaining flexibility through a small set of reconfigurable blocks. This paper describes Graphicionado pipeline design choices in detail and gives insights on how Graphicionado combats application execution inefficiencies on general-purpose CPUs. Our results show that Graphicionado achieves a 1.76-6.54x speedup while consuming 50-100x less energy compared to a state-of-The-Art software graph analytics processing framework executing 32 threads on a 16-core Haswell Xeon processor.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMICRO 2016 - 49th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9781509035083
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 14 2016
Event49th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, MICRO 2016 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: Oct 15 2016Oct 19 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture, MICRO
Volume2016-December
ISSN (Print)1072-4451

Other

Other49th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, MICRO 2016
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityTaipei
Period10/15/1610/19/16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Hardware and Architecture

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Graphicionado: A high-performance and energy-efficient accelerator for graph analytics'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this