Parallel Pagerank using Pthreads

A serial and a parallel implementation of Pagerank algorithm, in C, using Pthreads.

4th Course Assignment for Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (2013).

How to use

1. Download a graph to use (eg. web-Google.txt from here). You might need to remove any headers from the file.
2. Run make command in a unix-based system
3. Run the executable given the appropriate arguments

Arguments for serial version

• graph filename
• nodes
• threshold
• d

Example:

./pagerank_serial web-Google.txt 916428 0.0001 0.85

Arguments for PTHREADS version

• graph filename
• nodes
• threshold
• d
• threads

Example:

./pagerank_pthreads web-Google.txt 916428 0.0001 0.85 8

Output

Info messages in stdout.