GpuRecSplit / SimdRecSplit

We greatly improve the construction time of the RecSplit Minimal Perfect Hash Function using two orthogonal approaches. Rotation fitting hashes the objects in each leaf to two sets and tries to combine them to a bijection by cyclically shifting one set to fill the holes in the other. In addition, we harness parallelism on the level of bits, vectors, cores, and GPUs. The code in this repository achieves significant speedups on SIMD machines and GPUs, compared to the original RecSplit implementation.

Construction performance

In the space efficient configurations here, we use n = 5 million objects (strong scaling). For more detailed measurements, refer to our paper.

Library Usage

Clone (with submodules, git clone --recursive) this repo and add it to your CMakeLists.txt:

add_subdirectory(path/to/GpuRecSplit)
target_link_libraries(YourTarget PRIVATE RecSplit SIMDRecSplit GPURecSplit) # or a subset of the targets

Reproducing Experiments

This repository contains the source code and our reproducibility artifacts for the benchmarks specific to GpuRecSplit/SimdRecSplit. Benchmarks that compare SimdRecSplit to competitors are available in a different repository: https://github.com/ByteHamster/MPHF-Experiments

We provide an easy to use Docker image to quickly reproduce our results. Alternatively, you can look at the Dockerfile to see all libraries, tools, and commands necessary to compile.

Cloning the Repository

This repository contains submodules. To clone the repository including submodules, use the following command.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/ByteHamster/GpuRecSplit.git

Building the Docker Image

Run the following command to build the Docker image. Building the image takes about 10 minutes, as some packages (including LaTeX for the plots) have to be installed.

docker build -t gpurecsplit --no-cache .

Some compiler warnings (red) are expected when building dependencies and will not prevent building the image or running the experiments. Please ignore them!

Running the Experiments

Due to the long total running time of all experiments in our paper, we provide run scripts for a slightly simplified version of the experiments. They run fewer iterations and output fewer data points.

You can modify the benchmarks scripts in scripts/dockerVolume if you want to change the number of runs or data points. This does not require the Docker image to recompile. Different experiments can be started by using the following command:

docker run --interactive --tty -v "$(pwd)/scripts/dockerVolume:/opt/dockerVolume" gpurecsplit /opt/dockerVolume/<script>.sh

<script> depends on the experiment you want to run.

Figure	Launch command	Estimated runtime
Figure 3	/opt/dockerVolume/brute-force-vs-rotations.sh	30 minutes

The resulting plots can be found in scripts/dockerVolume and have the file extension .pdf. More experiments comparing GpuRecSplit with competitors can be found in a different repository: https://github.com/ByteHamster/MPHF-Experiments

Licensing

GpuRecSplit is licensed exactly like libstdc++ (GPLv3 + GCC Runtime Library Exception), which essentially means you can use it everywhere, exactly like libstdc++. You can find details in the COPYING and COPYING.RUNTIME files.

If you use the project in an academic context or publication, please cite our paper:

@inproceedings{bez2022high,
  author = {Dominik Bez and
    Florian Kurpicz and
    Hans{-}Peter Lehmann and
    Peter Sanders},
  title = {High Performance Construction of {RecSplit} Based Minimal Perfect Hash
    Functions},
  booktitle = {{ESA}},
  series = {LIPIcs},
  volume = {274},
  pages = {19:1--19:16},
  publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"{u}}r Informatik},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.4230/LIPICS.ESA.2023.19}
}