HPGA: A High-Performance Graph Analytics Framework on the GPU

In recent years, the rapidly growing use of graphs has sparked parallel graph analytics frameworks for leveraging the massive hardware resources, specifically graphics processing units (GPUs). However, the issues of the unpredictable control flows, memory divergence, and the complexity of programming have restricted high-level GPU graph libraries. In this work, we present HPGA, a high performance parallel graph analytics framework targeting the GPU. HPGA implements an abstraction which maps vertex programs to generalized sparse matrix operations on GPUs for delivering high performance. HPGA incorporates high-performance GPU computing primitives and optimization strategies with a high-level programming model. We evaluate the performance of HPGA for three graph primitives (BFS, SSSP, PageRank) with large-scale datasets. The experimental results show that HPGA matches or even exceeds the performance of MapGraph and nvGRAPH, two state-of-the-art GPU graph libraries.