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Blogel: A Block-Centric Framework for Distributed Computation on Real-World Graphs

Summary: Block-centric Blogel for distributed graph processing targets skewed degree, large diameter, and high density in real-world graphs. Partitioning graphs into blocks and programming at the block level yields dramatic speedups over vertex-centric systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h213263a95b5bcfe4
Venue
VLDB
Year
2014
Pagerank
0.00012849025
Overall Rank
959 | 93.56%
DOI
10.14778/2733085.2733096
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BibTeX Citation

@article{yan_vldb14,
        title = {{Blogel: A Block-Centric Framework for Distributed Computation on Real-World Graphs}},
        author = {Yan, Da and Cheng, James and Lu, Yi and Ng, Wilfred},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        volume = {7},
        number = {14},
        pages = {1981--1992},
        doi = {10.14778/2733085.2733096},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2733085.2733096},
        year = {2014}
}

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