Generalizing Bulk-Synchronous Parallel Processing for Data Science: From Data to Threads and Agent-Based Simulations
Summary: Generalizes BSP for data science to agent simulations with local sync via partitions, preserving correctness. CloudCity, distributed engine exploiting partitions to boost compute and synchronization; evaluated against BSP-like systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Zilu Tian (EPFL)
- 2. Peter Lindner (EPFL)
- 3. Markus Nissl (Vienna University of Technology)
- 4. Christoph Koch (EPFL)
- 5. Val Tannen (University of Pennsylvania)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{tian_sigmod23,
title = {{Generalizing Bulk-Synchronous Parallel Processing for Data Science: From Data to Threads and Agent-Based Simulations}},
author = {Tian, Zilu and Lindner, Peter and Nissl, Markus and Koch, Christoph and Tannen, Val},
series = {{SIGMOD} '23},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3589296},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589296},
year = {2023}
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| 10,797 | Using Process Calculus for Optimizing Data and Computation Sharing in Complex Stateful Parallel Computations | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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| 3 | Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.0012250108 |
| 389 | One Trillion Edges: Graph Processing at Facebook-Scale | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00019386526 |
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