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GraphScope addresses on computations on extermely large graphs, e.g., the friendship networks of all facebook users, the hyperlink relations between all webpages around the world, and so on.

Typically the graph may have billions of nodes and 10x billions of edges. Obviously the graph data cannot be fit into a single machine to run alogrithms like SSSP or pagerank. And a single machine usually doesn't have enough cores for the computation, e.g., an interactive query couldn't return within milliseconds. That why we need distributed graph processing system for such big graphs.