Hi Wei, it depends on what you mean by workload for a batch processing system. I believe we can split the problem in two: generating a realistic graph, and using "representative" algorithms.
To generate graphs we have two options in giraph: 1) random graph: you specify the number of vertices and the number of edges for each vertex, and the edges will connect two random vertices. This creates a graph with (i) low clustering coefficient, (ii) low average path length, (ii) a uniform degree distribution 2) watts strogatz: you specify the number of vertices, the number of edges, and a rewire probability beta. giraph will generate a ring lattice (each vertex is connected to k preceeding vertices and k following vertices) and rewire some of the edges randomly. This will create a graph with (i) high clustering coefficient, (ii) low average path length, (iii) poisson-like degree distribution (depends on beta). This graph will resemble a small world graph such as a social network, except for the degree distribution which will not a power law. To use representative algorithms you can choose: 1) PageRank: it's a ranking algorithm where all the vertices are active and send messages along the edges at each superstep (hence you'll have O(V) active vertices and O(E) messages) 2) Shortest Paths: starting from a random vertex you'll visit al the vertices in the graph (some multiple times). This will have an aggregate O(V) active vertices and O(E) messages, but this is only a lower bound. In general you'l have different areas of the graph explored at each superstep, and hence potentially a varying workload across different supersteps. 3) Connected Components: this will have something opposite to (2) as it will have many active vertices at the beginning, where the detection is refined towards the end. Hope this helps, Claudio On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Wei Zhang <w...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am interested in measuring some performance numbers of Giraph on my > machine. > > I am wondering are there some pointers where I can get some (configurable) > reasonably large workload to work on ? > > Thanks! > > Wei > -- Claudio Martella claudio.marte...@gmail.com
