Algorithms – ESA 2005

Abstract

We present a software library , that enables practice-oriented experimentation with huge data sets. is an implementation of the C++ standard template library STL for external memory computations. It supports parallel disks, overlapping between I/O and computation, and pipelining technique that can save more than half of the I/Os. has already been used for computing minimum spanning trees, connected components, breadth-first search decompositions, constructing suffix arrays, and computing social network analysis metrics.