gmap
Section: Scotch user's manual (1)
Updated: 23 November 2019
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NAME
gmap, gpart - compute static mappings and partitions sequentially
SYNOPSIS
gmap [options] [gfile] [tfile] [mfile] [lfile]
gpart [options] [nparts/pwght] [gfile] [mfile] [lfile]
DESCRIPTION
The
gmap program computes, in a sequential way, a static mapping of a
source graph onto a target graph.
The gpart program is a simplified interface to gmap, which performs
graph partitioning instead of static mapping. Consequently, the
desired number of parts has to be provided, in lieu of the target
architecture. When using the program for graph clustering, the
number of parts turns into maximum cluster weight.
The -b and -c options allow the user to set preferences on the
behavior of the mapping strategy which is used by default. The -m
option allows the user to define a custom mapping strategy.
The -q option turns the programs into graph clustering programs. In
this case, gmap only accepts variable-sized target architectures.
Source graph file gfile can only be a centralized graph file. For gmap,
the target architecture file tfile describes either algorithmically-coded
topologies such as meshes and hypercubes, or decomposition-defined
architectures created by means of the amk_grf(1) program. The resulting
mapping is stored in file mfile. Eventual logging information (such
as the one produced by option -v) is sent to file lfile. When file
names are not specified, data is read from standard input and
written to standard output. Standard streams can also be explicitely
represented by a dash '-'.
When the proper libraries have been included at compile time, gmap
and gpart can directly handle compressed graphs, both as input and
output. A stream is treated as compressed whenever its name is
postfixed with a compressed file extension, such as
in 'brol.grf.bz2' or '-.gz'. The compression formats which can be
supported are the bzip2 format ('.bz2'), the gzip format ('.gz'),
and the lzma format ('.lzma').
OPTIONS
- -bval
-
Set maximum load imbalance ratio for graph partitioning
or static mapping. When programs are used as clustering
tools, this parameter sets the maximum load imbalance
ratio for recursive bipartitions. Exclusive with
the -m option.
- -copt
-
Choose default mapping strategy according to one or
several options among:
-
- b
-
enforce load balance as much as possible.
- q
-
privilege quality over speed (default).
- s
-
privilege speed over quality.
- t
-
enforce safety.
It is exclusive with the -m option.
- -h
-
Display some help.
- -mstrat
-
Use sequential mapping strategy strat (see
Scotch user's manual for more information).
- -q
-
(for gpart)
- -qpwght
-
(for gmap)
Use the programs as graph clustering tools instead of
static mapping or graph partitioning tools. For gpart,
the number of parts will become the maximum cluster
weight. For gmap, this number pwght has to be passed
after the option.
- -V
-
Display program version and copyright.
- -vverb
-
Set verbose mode to verb. It is a set of one of more
characters which can be:
-
- m
-
mapping information.
- s
-
strategy information.
- t
-
timing information.
TARGET ARCHITECTURES
Target architectures represent graphs onto which source graphs are
mapped. In order to speed-up the obtainment of target architecture
topological properties during the computation of mappings, some
classical topologies are algorithmically coded into the mapper
itself. These topologies are consequently simply defined by their
code name, followed by their dimensional parameters:
- cmplt dim
-
unweighted complete graph of size dim.
- cmpltw dim w0 w1 ... wdim-1
-
weighted complete graph of size
size and of respective loads
w0, w1, ..., wdim-1.
- hcub dim
-
hypercube of dimension dim.
- leaf hgt n0 w0 ... nhgt-1 whgt-1
-
tree-leaf graph of height hgt
with (n0 times n1 times ... nhgt-1)
vertices, with inter-cluster link
weights of w0, w1, ... whgt-1.
- mesh2D dimX dimY
-
2D mesh of dimX times dimY nodes.
- mesh3D dimX dimY dimZ
-
23 mesh of dimX times dimY times dimZ nodes.
- torus2D dimX dimY
-
2D torus of dimX times dimY nodes.
- torus3D dimX dimY dimZ
-
3D torus of dimX times dimY times dimZ nodes.
Other target topologies can be created from their source graph
description by using the amk_grf(1) command. In this case, the
target description will begin with the code name deco.
MAPPINGS
Mappings are represented by as many lines as there are vertices in
the source graph. Each of these lines is made of two figures: the
number of the vertex (or its label if source graph vertices are
labeled) and the index of the target vertex to which it has been
assigned. Target vertex indices range from 0 to the number of
vertices in the target architecture (that is, the number of parts)
minus one.
This block of lines is always preceded by the number of such
lines. In most cases, since full mappings are requested, the number
of lines is equal to the number of vertices in the source graph.
EXAMPLES
Run
gpart to compute a partition into 7 parts of graph 'brol.grf' and
save the resulting ordering to file 'brol.map'.
$ gpart 7 brol.grf brol.map
Run
gmap to compute a partition, into 3 parts of respective weights
1, 2 and 4, of graph 'brol.grf' and save the resulting mapping to
file 'brol.map'. The dash '-' standard file name is used so that the
target architecture description is read from the standard input,
through the pipe, as provided by the 'echo' shell command.
$ echo "cmpltw 3 1 2 4" | gmap brol.grf - brol.map
SEE ALSO
amk_grf(1),
acpl(1),
gmtst(1),
dgmap(1).
Scotch user's manual.
AUTHOR
Francois Pellegrini <
francois.pellegrini@labri.fr>