빈발 패턴 마이닝 방법 및 장치

Abstract

Disclosed is a frequent pattern mining method and apparatus, the frequent pattern mining apparatus that may copy relative memory addresses of candidate itemsets, from a main memory to device memories of graphic processing units (GPUs), copy at least one same block required for calculating supports of the candidate itemsets, from the main memory to the device memories, and update the supports of the candidate itemsets by synchronizing partial supports processed by the GPUs.