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Implementing YewPar: A Framework for Parallel Tree Search

Authors : Blair Archibald, Patrick Maier, Robert Stewart, Phil Trinder

Published in: Euro-Par 2019: Parallel Processing

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Combinatorial search is central to many applications yet hard to parallelise. We argue for improving the reuse of parallel searches, and present the design and implementation of a new parallel search framework. YewPar generalises search by abstracting search tree generation, and by providing algorithmic skeletons that support three search types, together with a set of search coordination strategies. The evaluation shows that the cost of YewPar generality is low (6.1%); global knowledge is inexpensively shared between workers; irregular tasks are effectively distributed; and YewPar delivers good runtimes, speedups and efficiency with up to 255 workers on 17 localities.

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Title: Implementing YewPar: A Framework for Parallel Tree Search
Authors: Blair Archibald
Patrick Maier
Robert Stewart
Phil Trinder
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Euro-Par 2019: Parallel Processing
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-29399-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-29400-7

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29400-7_14

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