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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.WABI.2023.16
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-186424
URL: https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/18642/
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Khan, Jamshed ; Rubel, Tobias ; Dhulipala, Laxman ; Molloy, Erin ; Patro, Rob

Fast, Parallel, and Cache-Friendly Suffix Array Construction

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Abstract

String indexes such as the suffix array (SA) and the closely related longest common prefix (LCP) array are fundamental objects in bioinformatics and have a wide variety of applications. Despite their importance in practice, few scalable parallel algorithms for constructing these are known, and the existing algorithms can be highly non-trivial to implement and parallelize. In this paper we present CaPS-SA, a simple and scalable parallel algorithm for constructing these string indexes inspired by samplesort. Due to its design, CaPS-SA has excellent memory-locality and thus incurs fewer cache misses and achieves strong performance on modern multicore systems with deep cache hierarchies. We show that despite its simple design, CaPS-SA outperforms existing state-of-the-art parallel SA and LCP-array construction algorithms on modern hardware. Finally, motivated by applications in modern aligners where the query strings have bounded lengths, we introduce the notion of a bounded-context SA and show that CaPS-SA can easily be extended to exploit this structure to obtain further speedups.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{khan_et_al:LIPIcs.WABI.2023.16,
  author =	{Khan, Jamshed and Rubel, Tobias and Dhulipala, Laxman and Molloy, Erin and Patro, Rob},
  title =	{{Fast, Parallel, and Cache-Friendly Suffix Array Construction}},
  booktitle =	{23rd International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2023)},
  pages =	{16:1--16:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-294-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{273},
  editor =	{Belazzougui, Djamal and Ouangraoua, A\"{i}da},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/18642},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-186424},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.WABI.2023.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: Suffix Array, Longest Common Prefix, Data Structures, Indexing, Parallel Algorithms}
}

Keywords: Suffix Array, Longest Common Prefix, Data Structures, Indexing, Parallel Algorithms
Collection: 23rd International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2023)
Issue Date: 2023
Date of publication: 29.08.2023
Supplementary Material: Software (Source Code): https://github.com/jamshed/CaPS-SA archived at: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/swh:1:dir:a503464134894c9067090bc3f65c04308842c5bb

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