图形神经网络（GNNS）已成为处理机器学习任务的有效方法，它为构建推荐系统带来了一种新方法，其中可以将推荐任务作为用户 - 项目的链接预测问题提出， 。培训基于GNN的推荐系统（GNNRECSYS）在大图上会引起大型内存足迹，很容易超过典型服务器上的DRAM容量。现有的解决方案诉诸分布式子图培训，这是由于动态构建子图和各个子图的大量冗余的高成本而效率低下。新兴的Intel Optane持久记忆使一台机器以可承受的成本具有最多6 TB的存储器，从而使单机器Gnnrecsys训练可行，从而消除了分布式培训中的效率低下。与DRAM相比，将Optane用于Gnnrecsys的一个主要问题是Optane相对较低的带宽。由于其主要的计算内核稀疏且内存访问密集，因此这种限制可能对Gnnrecsys工作量的高性能特别有害。为了了解Optane是否适合Gnnrecsys培训，我们对Gnnrecsys工作负载进行了深入的表征和全面的基准测试研究。我们的基准测试结果表明，经过正确配置后，基于Optane的单机器GNNRECSYS训练优于大幅度的培训，尤其是在处理深度GNN模型时。我们分析了加速度的来源，提供有关如何为GNNRECSYS工作负载配置Optane的指导，并讨论进一步优化的机会。

图形神经网络（GNN）已被证明是分析非欧国人图数据的强大工具。但是，缺乏有效的分布图学习（GL）系统极大地阻碍了GNN的应用，尤其是当图形大且GNN相对深时。本文中，我们提出了GraphTheta，这是一种以顶点为中心的图形编程模型实现的新颖分布式和可扩展的GL系统。 GraphTheta是第一个基于分布式图处理的GL系统，其神经网络运算符以用户定义的功能实现。该系统支持多种培训策略，并在分布式（虚拟）机器上启用高度可扩展的大图学习。为了促进图形卷积实现，GraphTheta提出了一个名为NN-Tgar的新的GL抽象，以弥合图形处理和图形深度学习之间的差距。提出了分布式图引擎，以通过混合平行执行进行随机梯度下降优化。此外，除了全球批次和迷你批次外，我们还为新的集群批次培训策略提供了支持。我们使用许多网络大小的数据集评估GraphTheta，范围从小，适度到大规模。实验结果表明，GraphTheta可以很好地扩展到1,024名工人，用于培训内部开发的GNN，该工业尺度的Aripay数据集为14亿个节点和41亿个属性边缘，并带有CPU虚拟机（Dockers）群的小群。 （5 $ \ sim $ 12GB）。此外，GraphTheta比最先进的GNN实现获得了可比或更好的预测结果，证明其学习GNN和现有框架的能力，并且可以超过多达$ 2.02 \ tims $ $ 2.02 \ times $，具有更好的可扩展性。据我们所知，这项工作介绍了文献中最大的边缘属性GNN学习任务。

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been demonstrated to be a powerful algorithmic model in broad application fields for their effectiveness in learning over graphs. To scale GNN training up for large-scale and ever-growing graphs, the most promising solution is distributed training which distributes the workload of training across multiple computing nodes. However, the workflows, computational patterns, communication patterns, and optimization techniques of distributed GNN training remain preliminarily understood. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey of distributed GNN training by investigating various optimization techniques used in distributed GNN training. First, distributed GNN training is classified into several categories according to their workflows. In addition, their computational patterns and communication patterns, as well as the optimization techniques proposed by recent work are introduced. Second, the software frameworks and hardware platforms of distributed GNN training are also introduced for a deeper understanding. Third, distributed GNN training is compared with distributed training of deep neural networks, emphasizing the uniqueness of distributed GNN training. Finally, interesting issues and opportunities in this field are discussed.

最近，图形卷积网络（GCNS）已成为用于分析非欧几里德图数据的最先进的算法。然而，实现有效的GCN训练，特别是在大图中挑战。原因是许多折叠的原因：1）GCN训练引发了大量的内存占用。大图中的全批量培训甚至需要数百到数千千兆字节的内存，以缓冲中间数据进行反向传播。 2）GCN培训涉及内存密集型数据减少和计算密集型功能/渐变更新操作。这种异构性质挑战当前的CPU / GPU平台。 3）图形的不规则性和复杂的训练数据流共同增加了提高GCN培训系统效率的难度。本文提出了一种混合架构来解决这些挑战的混合架构。具体地，GCNEAR采用基于DIMM的存储系统，提供易于级别的存储器容量。为了匹配异构性质，我们将GCN培训操作分类为内存密集型减少和计算密集型更新操作。然后，我们卸载将操作减少到DIMM NMES，充分利用高聚合的本地带宽。我们采用具有足够计算能力的CAE来处理更新操作。我们进一步提出了几种优化策略来处理GCN任务的不规则，提高GCNEAR的表现。我们还提出了一种多GCNEAR系统来评估GCNEAR的可扩展性。

图形神经网络（GNN）的输入图的大小不断增加，突显了使用多GPU平台的需求。但是，由于计算不平衡和效率较低的通信，现有的多GPU GNN解决方案遭受了劣质性能。为此，我们提出了MGG，这是一种新型的系统设计，可以通过以GPU为中心的软件管道在多GPU平台上加速GNN。 MGG探讨了通过细粒度计算通信管道中隐藏GNN工作负载中远程内存访问延迟的潜力。具体而言，MGG引入了管​​道感知工作负载管理策略和混合数据布局设计，以促进通信局限性重叠。 MGG实现以优化的管道为中心的内核。它包括工作负载交织和基于经经的映射，以进行有效的GPU内核操作管道和专门的内存设计以及优化，以更好地数据访问性能。此外，MGG还结合了轻巧的分析建模和优化启发式方法，以动态提高运行时不同设置的GNN执行性能。全面的实验表明，MGG在各种GNN设置上的最先进的多GPU系统要比最先进的多GPU系统：平均比具有统一虚拟内存设计的多GPU系统快3.65倍，平均比DGCL框架快7.38倍。

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are extensively utilized for deep learning on graphs. The large data sizes of graphs and their vertex features make scalable training algorithms and distributed memory systems necessary. Since the convolution operation on graphs induces irregular memory access patterns, designing a memory- and communication-efficient parallel algorithm for GCN training poses unique challenges. We propose a highly parallel training algorithm that scales to large processor counts. In our solution, the large adjacency and vertex-feature matrices are partitioned among processors. We exploit the vertex-partitioning of the graph to use non-blocking point-to-point communication operations between processors for better scalability. To further minimize the parallelization overheads, we introduce a sparse matrix partitioning scheme based on a hypergraph partitioning model for full-batch training. We also propose a novel stochastic hypergraph model to encode the expected communication volume in mini-batch training. We show the merits of the hypergraph model, previously unexplored for GCN training, over the standard graph partitioning model which does not accurately encode the communication costs. Experiments performed on real-world graph datasets demonstrate that the proposed algorithms achieve considerable speedups over alternative solutions. The optimizations achieved on communication costs become even more pronounced at high scalability with many processors. The performance benefits are preserved in deeper GCNs having more layers as well as on billion-scale graphs.

Training Graph Neural Networks, on graphs containing billions of vertices and edges, at scale using minibatch sampling poses a key challenge: strong-scaling graphs and training examples results in lower compute and higher communication volume and potential performance loss. DistGNN-MB employs a novel Historical Embedding Cache combined with compute-communication overlap to address this challenge. On a 32-node (64-socket) cluster of $3^{rd}$ generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors with 36 cores per socket, DistGNN-MB trains 3-layer GraphSAGE and GAT models on OGBN-Papers100M to convergence with epoch times of 2 seconds and 4.9 seconds, respectively, on 32 compute nodes. At this scale, DistGNN-MB trains GraphSAGE 5.2x faster than the widely-used DistDGL. DistGNN-MB trains GraphSAGE and GAT 10x and 17.2x faster, respectively, as compute nodes scale from 2 to 32.

最近，Graph神经网络（GNNS）已成为聚光灯作为强大的工具，可以有效地在图形结构化数据上执行各种推理任务。随着现实图表的大小继续扩展，GNN训练系统面临可扩展性挑战。分布式培训是一种流行的方法，可以通过扩展CPU节点来应对这一挑战。但是，对基于磁盘的GNN培训的关注不多，该培训可以通过利用NVME SSD等高性能存储设备来以更具成本效益的方式扩展单节点系统。我们观察到，主内存和磁盘之间的数据移动是基于SSD的训练系统中的主要瓶颈，并且常规的GNN训练管道是不错的选择，而无需考虑此开销。因此，我们提出了Ginex，这是第一个基于SSD的GNN训练系统，可以在单台计算机上处​​理数十亿个图形数据集。受到编译器优化的检查员执行模型的启发，Ginex通过分开样品和收集阶段来重组GNN训练管道。这种分离使Ginex能够实现一种可证明的最佳替换算法，即被称为Belady的算法，用于存储器中的Caching特征向量，该算法是I/O访问的主要部分。根据我们对40亿尺度图数据集的评估，Ginex平均比SSD扩展的Pytorch几何得出了2.11倍的训练吞吐量（最大最高2.67倍）。

最近，作为基于图形机器学习的骨干的图形神经网络（GNN）展示了各个域（例如，电子商务）的巨大成功。然而，由于基于高稀疏和不规则的图形操作，GNN的性能通常不令人满意。为此，我们提出，TC-GNN，基于GNN加速框架的第一个GPU张量核心单元（TCU）。核心思想是将“稀疏”GNN计算与“密集”TCU进行调和。具体地，我们对主流GNN计算框架中的稀疏操作进行了深入的分析。我们介绍了一种新颖的稀疏图翻译技术，便于TCU处理稀疏GNN工作量。我们还实现了一个有效的CUDA核心和TCU协作设计，以充分利用GPU资源。我们将TC-GNN与Pytorch框架完全集成，以便于编程。严格的实验在各种GNN型号和数据集设置的最先进的深图库框架上平均显示了1.70倍的加速。

Dynamic Graph Neural Networks (DGNNs) have been broadly applied in various real-life applications, such as link prediction and pandemic forecast, to capture both static structural information and temporal characteristics from dynamic graphs. Combining both time-dependent and -independent components, DGNNs manifest substantial parallel computation and data reuse potentials, but suffer from severe memory access inefficiency and data transfer overhead under the canonical one-graph-at-a-time training pattern. To tackle the challenges, we propose PiPAD, a $\underline{\textbf{Pi}}pelined$ and $\underline{\textbf{PA}}rallel$ $\underline{\textbf{D}}GNN$ training framework for the end-to-end performance optimization on GPUs. From both the algorithm and runtime level, PiPAD holistically reconstructs the overall training paradigm from the data organization to computation manner. Capable of processing multiple graph snapshots in parallel, PiPAD eliminates the unnecessary data transmission and alleviates memory access inefficiency to improve the overall performance. Our evaluation across various datasets shows PiPAD achieves $1.22\times$-$9.57\times$ speedup over the state-of-the-art DGNN frameworks on three representative models.

图形神经网络（GNNS）将深度神经网络（DNN）的成功扩展到非欧几里德图数据，实现了各种任务的接地性能，例如节点分类和图形属性预测。尽管如此，现有系统效率低，培训数十亿节点和GPU的节点和边缘训练大图。主要瓶颈是准备GPU数据的过程 - 子图采样和特征检索。本文提出了一个分布式GNN培训系统的BGL，旨在解决一些关键思想的瓶颈。首先，我们提出了一种动态缓存引擎，以最小化特征检索流量。通过协同设计缓存政策和抽样顺序，我们发现低开销和高缓存命中率的精美斑点。其次，我们改善了曲线图分区算法，以减少子图采样期间的交叉分区通信。最后，仔细资源隔离减少了不同数据预处理阶段之间的争用。关于各种GNN模型和大图数据集的广泛实验表明，BGL平均明显优于现有的GNN训练系统20.68倍。

Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNs) have emerged as a key technology in various application domains where the input data is relational. A unique property of GCNs is that its two primary execution stages, aggregation and combination, exhibit drastically different dataflows. Consequently, prior GCN accelerators tackle this research space by casting the aggregation and combination stages as a series of sparse-dense matrix multiplication. However, prior work frequently suffers from inefficient data movements, leaving significant performance left on the table. We present GROW, a GCN accelerator based on Gustavson's algorithm to architect a row-wise product based sparse-dense GEMM accelerator. GROW co-designs the software/hardware that strikes a balance in locality and parallelism for GCNs, achieving significant energy-efficiency improvements vs. state-of-the-art GCN accelerators.

As the interest to Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is growing, the importance of benchmarking and performance characterization studies of GNNs is increasing. So far, we have seen many studies that investigate and present the performance and computational efficiency of GNNs. However, the work done so far has been carried out using a few high-level GNN frameworks. Although these frameworks provide ease of use, they contain too many dependencies to other existing libraries. The layers of implementation details and the dependencies complicate the performance analysis of GNN models that are built on top of these frameworks, especially while using architectural simulators. Furthermore, different approaches on GNN computation are generally overlooked in prior characterization studies, and merely one of the common computational models is evaluated. Based on these shortcomings and needs that we observed, we developed a benchmark suite that is framework independent, supporting versatile computational models, easily configurable and can be used with architectural simulators without additional effort. Our benchmark suite, which we call gSuite, makes use of only hardware vendor's libraries and therefore it is independent of any other frameworks. gSuite enables performing detailed performance characterization studies on GNN Inference using both contemporary GPU profilers and architectural GPU simulators. To illustrate the benefits of our new benchmark suite, we perform a detailed characterization study with a set of well-known GNN models with various datasets; running gSuite both on a real GPU card and a timing-detailed GPU simulator. We also implicate the effect of computational models on performance. We use several evaluation metrics to rigorously measure the performance of GNN computation.

图形神经网络（GNN）由于其独特的能力扩展了机器学习（ML）方法，因此引起了极大的关注，该应用程序广泛定义为具有非结构化数据，尤其是图形。与其他机器学习（ML）方式相比，由于源自图类型的不规则性和异质性，图形神经网络（GNN）的加速度更具挑战性。但是，现有的努力主要集中在处理图形的不规则性上，并且没有研究其异质性。为此，我们提出了H-GCN，PL（可编程逻辑）和AIE（AI引擎）的混合加速器，以利用Xilinx Versal自适应计算加速度平台（ACAPS）的新兴异质性（ACAPS）来实现高表现GNN的确定。特别是，H-GCN根据其固有的异质性将每个图分为三个子图，并分别使用PL和AIE处理它们。为了进一步提高性能，我们探索了AIE的稀疏支持，并开发了一种有效的密度感知方法，以自动将稀疏矩阵矩阵乘法（SPMM）的瓷砖自动映射到收缩张量数阵列上。与最先进的GCN加速器相比，H-GCN平均达到1.1〜2.3倍的速度。

TensorFlow is a machine learning system that operates at large scale and in heterogeneous environments. Tensor-Flow uses dataflow graphs to represent computation, shared state, and the operations that mutate that state. It maps the nodes of a dataflow graph across many machines in a cluster, and within a machine across multiple computational devices, including multicore CPUs, generalpurpose GPUs, and custom-designed ASICs known as Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). This architecture gives flexibility to the application developer: whereas in previous "parameter server" designs the management of shared state is built into the system, TensorFlow enables developers to experiment with novel optimizations and training algorithms. TensorFlow supports a variety of applications, with a focus on training and inference on deep neural networks. Several Google services use TensorFlow in production, we have released it as an open-source project, and it has become widely used for machine learning research. In this paper, we describe the TensorFlow dataflow model and demonstrate the compelling performance that Tensor-Flow achieves for several real-world applications.

近年来，由于图表代表学习的出色表现，图形神经网络（GNN）技术在许多真实情景中获得了相当大的兴趣，例如推荐系统和社交网络。在推荐系统中，主要挑战是从其互动中学习有效的用户/项目表示。但是，由于它们对数据集和评估度量的差异，比较使用GNNS用于推荐系统的GNN的许多出版物。此外，其中许多只提供了一个演示，以对小型数据集进行实验，这很远可在现实世界推荐系统中应用。为了解决这个问题，我们介绍了Graph4Rec，这是一个Universal Toolkit，它统一地将GNN模型培训到以下部分：图表输入，随机步行生成，自我图形生成，对生成和GNNS选择。从这个训练管道，可以通过一些配置轻松建立自己的GNN模型。此外，我们开发了一个大规模的图形引擎和参数服务器，以支持分布式GNN培训。我们进行系统和全面的实验，以比较不同GNN模型在不同规模中的若干场景中的性能。证明了广泛的实验以识别GNN的关键组分。我们还尝试弄清楚稀疏和密集的参数如何影响GNN的性能。最后，我们研究了包括负面采样，自我图形建设顺序和温暖开始策略的方法，以找到更有效和高效的GNNS在推荐系统上做法。我们的工具包基于PGL HTTPS://github.com/paddlePaddle/pgl，并且在https://github.com/paddlepaddle/pgl/tree/main/apps/graph4rec中打开代码。

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have received great attention due to their success in various graph-related learning tasks. Several GNN frameworks have then been developed for fast and easy implementation of GNN models. Despite their popularity, they are not well documented, and their implementations and system performance have not been well understood. In particular, unlike the traditional GNNs that are trained based on the entire graph in a full-batch manner, recent GNNs have been developed with different graph sampling techniques for mini-batch training of GNNs on large graphs. While they improve the scalability, their training times still depend on the implementations in the frameworks as sampling and its associated operations can introduce non-negligible overhead and computational cost. In addition, it is unknown how much the frameworks are 'eco-friendly' from a green computing perspective. In this paper, we provide an in-depth study of two mainstream GNN frameworks along with three state-of-the-art GNNs to analyze their performance in terms of runtime and power/energy consumption. We conduct extensive benchmark experiments at several different levels and present detailed analysis results and observations, which could be helpful for further improvement and optimization.

嵌入式模型是高维数据的有效学习范例。但是，嵌入模型的一个开放问题是它们的表示（潜在因子）通常会导致大参数空间。我们观察到，现有的分布式训练框架面临嵌入模型的可伸缩性问题，因为从服务器的共享嵌入参数更新和检索共享嵌入参数通常占主导地位培训周期。在本文中，我们提出了一种新的系统框架，可显着提高巨大嵌入模型培训的可扩展性。我们拥抱嵌入的嵌入式作为绩效机会的倾斜流行分布，并利用它来解决具有嵌入缓存的通信瓶颈。为确保缓存跨越一致性，我们将新的一致性模型纳入HET设计，该模型提供了在每嵌入的基础上提供细粒度的一致性保证。与以前的工作相比，只允许读取操作的僵化，HET也利用了写入操作的血液性。六种代表性任务的评估表明，在最先进的基线上，HET达到高达88％的嵌入通信减少和高达20.68倍的性能加速。

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a class of neural networks designed to extract information from the graphical structure of data. Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are a widely used type of GNN for transductive graph learning problems which apply convolution to learn information from graphs. GCN is a challenging algorithm from an architecture perspective due to inherent sparsity, low data reuse, and massive memory capacity requirements. Traditional neural algorithms exploit the high compute capacity of GPUs to achieve high performance for both inference and training. The architectural decision to use a GPU for GCN inference is a question explored in this work. GCN on both CPU and GPU was characterized in order to better understand the implications of graph size, embedding dimension, and sampling on performance.

开发用于训练图形的可扩展解决方案，用于链路预测任务的Neural网络（GNNS）由于具有高计算成本和巨大内存占用的高数据依赖性，因此由于高数据依赖性而具有挑战性。我们提出了一种新的方法，用于缩放知识图形嵌入模型的培训，以满足这些挑战。为此，我们提出了以下算法策略：自给自足的分区，基于约束的负采样和边缘迷你批量培训。两者都是分区策略和基于约束的负面采样，避免在训练期间交叉分区数据传输。在我们的实验评估中，我们表明，我们基于GNN的知识图形嵌入模型的缩放解决方案在基准数据集中实现了16倍的加速，同时将可比的模型性能作为标准度量的非分布式方法。