
doi: 10.18280/isi.260106
K-means++ is the clustering algorithm that is created to improve the process of getting initial clusters in the K-means algorithm. The k-means++ algorithm selects initial k-centroids arbitrarily dependent on a probability that is proportional to each data-point distance to the existing centroids. The most noteworthy problem of this algorithm is when running happens in sequential mode, as this reduces the speed of clustering. In this paper, we develop a new parallel k-means++ algorithm using the graphics processing units (GPU) where the Open Computing Language (OpenCL) platform is used as the programming environment to perform the data assignment phase in parallel while the Streaming SIMD Extension (SSE) technology is used to perform the initialization step to select the initial centroids in parallel on CPU. The focus is on optimizations directly targeted to this architecture to exploit the most of the available computing capabilities. Our objective is to minimize runtime while keeping the quality of the serial implementation. Our outcomes demonstrate that the implementation of targeting hybrid parallel architectures (CPU & GPU) is the most appropriate for large data. We have been able to achieve a 152 times higher throughput than that of the sequential implementation of k-means ++.
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