Abstract:P-Rank enriches the traditional similarity measure, SimRank. It is also a method to measure the similarity between two objects in graph model. Different from SimRank which only considers the in-link information, P-Rank also takes the out-link information into consideration. Consequently, P-Rank could effectively and comprehensively measure “how similar two nodes are”. P-Rank is applied widely in graph mining. With the arrival of big-data era, the data scale which P-Rank processes is increasing. The existing methods which implement P-Rank, such as the MapReduce model, are essentially synchronous iterative methods. These methods have some shortcomings in common: the iterative time, especially the waiting time of processors during iterative computing, is long, thus leading to very low efficiency. To solve this problem, this paper uses a new iterative method—the Asynchronous Accumulative Update method. Different from the traditional synchronous methods, this method successfully implementes asynchronous computations and as a result reduces the waiting time of processors during computing. This paper implements P-Rank using the asynchronous accumulative update method, and the experiment results indicate that this method can effectively improve the computation speed.