Duane Merrill (NVIDIA) - GPU Technology Conference

MIS applicationsGraph coloring (vertex coloring)Co-scheduling sets of independent resourcesUseful for GPUs: avoid atomic updates by touchingitems in different kernelsMatching (edge coloring)Pair-wise assignmentsScheduling of jobs onto hostsMatching people with desks, dance partners, kidneys, etc.Run MIS on G’ where:There is a node in G’ for every edge in GNodes are connected in G’ if edges in G are adjacent40