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Balanced Partitioning of Grids and Related Graphs

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Balanced Partitioning of Grids and Related Graphs

A Theoretical Study of Data Distribution in Parallel Finite Element Model Simulations

Andreas Emil Feldmann (Autor)

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ISBN-13 (Printausgabe) 9783954041251
ISBN-13 (E-Book) 9783736941250
Sprache Englisch
Seitenanzahl 218
Umschlagkaschierung matt
Auflage 1. Aufl.
Erscheinungsort Göttingen
Promotionsort Göttingen
Erscheinungsdatum 07.06.2012
Allgemeine Einordnung Dissertation
Fachbereiche Informatik
Schlagwörter approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation, balanced partitioning, bisection, grid graphs, trees
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Abstract
This thesis considers the k-BALANCED PARTITIONING problem, which is defined as follows. Find the minimum number of edges in a graph that, when cut, partition the vertices into k (almost) equally sized sets. Amongst others, the problem derives its importance from the need to distribute data within a parallel-computing architecture. In this setting we are particularly interested in 2D finite element model (FEM) simulations. We therefore model the input as a regular quadrilateral tiling of the plane. More precisely, we focus on solid grid graphs. These are finite connected subgraphs of the infinite 2D grid without holes. However we also consider other graph classes. In particular, trees often give surprising conclusions to the problem on grid graphs.

We provide several efficient algorithms computing provably good solutions. For the case when k=2 (the BISECTION problem) these include methods to compute optimal as well as approximate solutions. When k can take arbitrary values we provide two kinds of approximation algorithms. First we give a method that is fast but, for practical applications, has unsatisfactory approximation ratios. Additionally we provide an algorithm computing near-optimal solutions, which however is too slow to be used in practice. We also prove that the gained tradeoff between fast runtime and good approximation factors is unavoidable. For this we provide corresponding hardness results.