A Parallel Approximation Algorithm for the Weighted Maximum Matching Problem
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We consider the problem of computing a weighted edge matching in a large graph using a parallel algorithm. This problem has application in several areas of combinatorial scientific computing. Since an exact algorithm for the weighted matching problem is both fairly expensive to compute and hard to parallelise we instead consider fast approximation
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