Graphite: A NUMA-aware HPC System for Graph Analytics Based on a new MPI * X Parallelism Model
Summary: Graphite introduces MPI*X, partitioning computation and communication across threads rather than processes to avoid synchronization overhead. Its NUMA-aware GAS execution and thread-level asynchronous communication yield up to 3× speedups over prior HPC graph systems. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Mohammad Hasanzadeh Mofrad (University of Pittsburgh)
- 2. Rami Melhem (University of Pittsburgh)
- 3. Yousuf Ahmad (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 4. Mohammad Hammoud (Carnegie Mellon University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{mofrad_vldb20,
title = {{Graphite: A NUMA-aware HPC System for Graph Analytics Based on a new MPI * X Parallelism Model}},
author = {Mofrad, Mohammad Hasanzadeh and Melhem, Rami and Ahmad, Yousuf and Hammoud, Mohammad},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '20},
volume = {13},
number = {6},
pages = {783--796},
doi = {10.14778/3380750.3380751},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3380750.3380751},
year = {2020}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 10,236 | FaaSBoard: Efficient Graph Processing with a Disaggregated Architecture on Serverless Services | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.0012250108 |
| 20 | Distributed GraphLab: A Framework for Machine Learning and Data Mining in the Cloud | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00056944564 |
| 389 | One Trillion Edges: Graph Processing at Facebook-Scale | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00019386526 |
| 669 | The TileDB Array Data Storage Manager | 2017 | VLDB | 0.00015163245 |
| 1,076 | High-Speed Query Processing over High-Speed Networks | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00012270109 |
| 1,966 | GraphMat: High performance graph analytics made productive | 2015 | VLDB | 9.3844743e-05 |
| 1,983 | Pregelix: Big(ger) Graph Analytics on A Dataflow Engine | 2015 | VLDB | 9.3544951e-05 |
| 2,325 | Giraph Unchained: Barrierless Asynchronous Parallel Execution in Pregel-like Graph Processing Systems | 2015 | VLDB | 8.7495171e-05 |
| 3,601 | TopoX: Topology Refactorization for Efficient Graph Partitioning and Processing | 2019 | VLDB | 7.27018e-05 |
| 6,941 | LA3: A Scalable Link- and Locality-Aware Linear Algebra-Based Graph Analytics System | 2018 | VLDB | 5.7331942e-05 |
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