Edge Repartitioning via Structure-Aware Group Migration

Graph partitioning is a mandatory step in distributed graph computing systems. Some existing systems use edge partitioning methods to partition static graphs. However, the structure of the real-world graphs changes dynamically, which leads to unnecessary vertex replicas and load imbalance, reducing the performance of graph computation. In this article, we focus on improving the lower partitioning quality caused by the dynamics of the graph structure. We propose an edge repartitioning algorithm via structure-aware group migration (SAGM-ER). We define a special structure edge group (EG) consisting of multiple edges, which can reduce vertex replicas by migrating to other partitions. In repartitioning, we search for EGs in parallel by a method based on a structure-aware priority and then migrate EGs to reduce vertex replicas. Compared to the state of the art, SAGM-ER can reduce more vertex replicas. We implement SAGM-ER on Powergraph, which reduces the redundant replicas by 63.33%, thus reducing executing time and communication costs in graph computation by 33.72% and 37.51%, respectively.