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Heterogeneous Distributed Big Data Clustering on Sparse Grids
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: Received: 31 January 2019 / Approved: 2 February 2019 / Online: 2 February 2019 (03:27:07 CET)
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Pfander, D.; Daiß, G.; Pflüger, D. Heterogeneous Distributed Big Data Clustering on Sparse Grids. Algorithms 2019, 12, 60. Pfander, D.; Daiß, G.; Pflüger, D. Heterogeneous Distributed Big Data Clustering on Sparse Grids. Algorithms 2019, 12, 60.
Abstract
Clustering is an important task in data mining that has become more challenging due to the ever-increasing size of available datasets. To cope with these big data scenarios, a high-performance clustering approach is required. Sparse grid clustering is a density-based clustering method that uses a sparse grid density estimation as its central building block. The underlying density estimation approach enables the detection of clusters with non-convex shapes and without a predetermined number of clusters. In this work, we introduce a new distributed and performance-portable variant of the sparse grid clustering algorithm that is suited for big data settings. Our compute kernels were implemented in OpenCL to enable portability across a wide range of architectures. For distributed environments, we added a manager-worker scheme that was implemented using MPI. In experiments on two supercomputers, Piz Daint and Hazel Hen, with up to 100 million data points in a 10-dimensional dataset, we show the performance and scalability of our approach. The dataset with 100 million data points was clustered in 1198s using 128 nodes of Piz Daint. This translates to an overall performance of 352TFLOPS. On the node-level, we provide results for two GPUs, Nvidia's Tesla P100 and the AMD FirePro W8100, and one processor-based platform that uses Intel Xeon E5-2680v3 processors. In these experiments, we achieved between 43% and 66% of the peak performance across all compute kernels and devices, demonstrating the performance portability of our approach.
Keywords
clustering; machine learning; distributed computing; performance portability; GPGPU; OpenCL; peak performance
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Computer Science
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