Graph Algorithms in the Language of Linear Algebra (Software, Environments, and Tools) - Hardcover

Kepner, Jeremy; Gilbert, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0898719909 ISBN 13: 9780898719901

Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2011

Synopsis

The field of graph algorithms has become one of the pillars of theoretical computer science, informing research in such diverse areas as combinatorial optimization, complexity theory and topology. To improve the computational performance of graph algorithms, researchers have proposed a shift to a parallel computing paradigm. This book addresses the challenges of implementing parallel graph algorithms by exploiting the well-known duality between a canonical representation of graphs as abstract collections of vertices and edges and a sparse adjacency matrix representation. This linear algebraic approach is widely accessible to scientists and engineers who may not be formally trained in computer science. The authors show how to leverage existing parallel matrix computation techniques and the large amount of software infrastructure that exists for these computations to implement efficient and scalable parallel graph algorithms. The benefits of this approach are reduced algorithmic complexity, ease of implementation and improved performance.

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Book Description

The field of graph algorithms has become one of the pillars of theoretical computer science. This is an introduction to graph algorithms accessible to anyone with a strong linear algebra background - it allows non-computer science trained engineers and scientists to quickly understand and apply graph algorithms.

About the Author

Jeremy Kepner is a senior technical staff member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory. His research focuses on the development of advanced libraries for the application of massively parallel computing to a variety of data intensive signal processing problems on which he has published many articles.

John Gilbert is a SIAM Fellow and Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests are in combinatorial scientific computing, high-performance graph algorithms, tools and software for computational science and engineering, numerical linear algebra and distributed sensing and control.

Edition details

• Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0898719909
• ISBN 13: 9780898719901
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 375