k
-means is a standard algorithm for clustering data. It constitutes generally the final step in a more complex chain of high quality spectral clustering. However this chain suffers from lack of scalability when addressing large datasets. This can be overcome by applying also the
k
-means algorithm as a pre-processing task to reduce the input data instances. We describe parallel optimization techniques for the
k
-means algorithm on CPU and GPU. Experimental results on synthetic dataset illustrate the numerical accuracy and performance of our implementations.
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