Heuristic search can be applied to a wide range of optimization problems, e.g. to multiple sequence alignment or shortest path problems. In the MR-Search project, we are developing scalable search algorithms for massively parallel supercomputers.

MR-Search is a framework for massively parallel breadth-first and heuristic search based on the MapReduce paradigm. It can run on shared-memory machines using OpenMP and on distributed memory machines using MPI.

Publications

2013
Analyzing the performance of SMP memory allocators with iterative MapReduce applications Parallel Computing, 39(12), pp. 879-889, 2013 Alexander Reinefeld, Thorsten Schütt, Robert Döbbelin BibTeX
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Building Large Compressed PDBs for the Sliding Tile Puzzle Workshop on Computer Games, 2013 (preprint available as ZIB-Report 13-21) Robert Döbbelin, Thorsten Schütt, Alexander Reinefeld PDF (ZIB-Report)
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Forward Perimeter Search with Controlled Use of Memory International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-13, Beijing, 2013 Thorsten Schütt, Robert Döbbelin, Alexander Reinefeld PDF
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2012
An Analysis of SMP Memory Allocators Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (Fifth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing (P2S2)), pp. 48-54, 2012 Robert Döbbelin, Thorsten Schütt, Alexander Reinefeld BibTeX
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2011
Kürzeste-Wege-Suche mit Grafikkarten Master's thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2011 Bert Münnich BibTeX
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MR-search: massively parallel heuristic search Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 25(1), pp. 40-54, 2011 Thorsten Schütt, Alexander Reinefeld, Robert Döbbelin BibTeX
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Massiv-parallele Suche und effiziente Heuristiken Master's thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Alexander Reinefeld (Advisor), 2011 Robert Maier PDF
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2010
Beyond online aggregation: Parallel and incremental data mining with online Map-Reduce Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Massive Data Analytics on the Cloud, pp. 3:1-3:6, MDAC ’10, 2010 Joos-Hendrik Böse, Artur Andrzejak, Mikael Högqvist BibTeX
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Very large pattern databases for heuristic search HPDC, Salim Hariri, Kate Keahey (Eds.), pp. 803-809, 2010 Alexander Reinefeld, Thorsten Schütt, Robert Döbbelin BibTeX
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2009
Heuristic Search Encyclopedia of Optimization, pp. 1506-1508, Christodoulos Floudas, Panos Pardalos (Eds.), Springer, 2009 Alexander Reinefeld BibTeX
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Out-of-Core Parallel Frontier Search with MapReduce HPCS, pp. 323-336, Vol.5976, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009 Alexander Reinefeld, Thorsten Schütt BibTeX
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Parallel Heuristic Search Encyclopedia of Optimization, Christodoulos Floudas, Panos Pardalos (Eds.), Springer, pp. 2908-2912, 2009 Alexander Reinefeld BibTeX
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