eSAIS - Inducing Suffix and LCP Arrays in External Memory
Posted on 2012-11-19 15:49 by Timo Bingmann at Permlink with 2 Comments. Tags: #research #stringology #stxxl #c++
This web page accompanies our conference paper "Inducing Suffix and LCP Arrays in External Memory", which we presented at the Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX 2013). A PDF of the publication is available from this site as alenex13esais.pdf 
or from the online proceedings. The paper was joint work with my colleagues Johannes Fischer and Vitaly Osipov.
The slides to my presentation of the paper on January 7th, 2013 in New Orleans, LA, USA is available: alenex13esais-slides.pdf . They contain little text and an example of the eSAIS algorithm with a simplified PQ.
We have also submitted a full version of the eSAIS paper to a journal. Due to long publication cycles, we make a pre-print of the journal article is available here: esais-preprint.pdf . The full paper contains more details on the inducing algorithm for the LCP array and additional experimental details.
Our implementations of eSAIS, the eSAIS-LCP variants, DC3 and DC3-LCP algorithms as described in the paper are available below under the GNU General Public License v3 (GPL).
| eSAIS and DC3 with LCP version 0.5.4 (current) updated 2013-12-13 | ||
| Source code archive: (includes STXXL 1.4.0) | eSAIS-DC3-LCP-0.5.4.tar.bz2  (1.37 MiB) | Browse online |
| Git repositories | Suffix and LCP construction algorithmsgit clone https://github.com/bingmann/eSAIScd eSAIS; git submodule init; git submodule update | |
STXXL 1.4.0git clone https://github.com/stxxl/stxxl | ||
For more information about compiling and testing the implementation, please refer to the README included in the source.
We have also collected the real-world input samples used to test our algorithms. Note that these are files are very large and if you need them, please drop me an email:
| Wikipedia XML Dump from June 2012 | enwiki-20120601-pages-meta-current.xml.83339804349.xz (11.1 GiB) | Creative Commons License |
| Gutenberg Concatenation from September 2012 | gutenberg-201209.24090588160.xz (5.1 GiB) | Project Gutenberg License |
| UCSC Human Genome Assembly "hg19" | UCSC-human-hg19.dna.3137161264.xz (610 MiB) | Free by UCSC |
| First 8 Gi of Decimal Digits of Pi | pi.txt.8589934592.gz (3.8 GiB) | generated by y-cruncher |
Notice that most of these files are compressed with xz and must be recompressed with gzip for the esactest test program to be able to automatically decompress them on-the-fly.
Abstract
We consider text index construction in external memory (EM). Our first contribution is an inducing algorithm for suffix arrays in external memory. Practical tests show that this outperforms the previous best EM suffix sorter [Dementiev et al., ALENEX 2005] by a factor of about two in time and I/O-volume. Our second contribution is to augment the first algorithm to also construct the array of longest common prefixes (LCPs). This yields the first EM construction algorithm for LCP arrays. The overhead in time and I/O volume for this extended algorithm over plain suffix array construction is roughly two. Our algorithms scale far beyond problem sizes previously considered in the literature (text size of 80 GiB using only 4 GiB of RAM in our experiments).Older Versions
| eSAIS and DC3 with LCP version 0.5.2 released 2013-03-30 | ||
| Source code archive: (includes STXXL) | eSAIS-DC3-LCP-0.5.2.tar.bz2 (989 KiB) | Browse online |
| eSAIS and DC3 with LCP version 0.5.0 released 2012-11-26 | ||
| Source code archive: (includes STXXL) | eSAIS-DC3-LCP-0.5.0.tar.bz2 (979 KiB) | Browse online |
this is great stuff!