Abstract. Bulk Synchronous Parallelism (BSP) provides a good model for parallel processing of many large-scale graph applications, however it is unsuitable/inefficient for graph applications that require coordination, such as graph-coloring, subcoloring, and clustering. To address this problem, we present an efficient modification to the BSP model to implement serializability (sequential consistency) without reducing the highlyparallel nature of BSP. Our modification bypasses the message queues in BSP and reads directly from the worker's memory for the internal vertex executions. To ensure serializability, coordination is performedimplemented via dining philosophers or token ring-only for border vertices partitioned across workers. We implement our modifications to BSP on Giraph, an open-source clone of Google's Pregel. We show through a graph-coloring application that our modified framework, Giraphx, provides much better performance than implementing the application using dining-philosophers over Giraph. In fact, Giraphx outperforms Giraph even for embarrassingly parallel applications that do not require coordination, e.g., PageRank.
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