HPC Graph Analysis

Graph Algorithms Building Blocks (GABB’2018)

JW Marriott Parq Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

21 May 2018

Scope and Goals:

This workshop series started with the narrow goal of exploring the definition of a set of basic building blocks for graph algorithms (http://graphblas.org), analogous to the Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS). Over the years, our scope has expanded.  We’ve welcomed a wide range of papers into GABB covering graph computations with an emphasis on high-performance and parallel computing. We expect this trend to continue in 2018.

In particular, while we retain our focus on "building blocks" for graph computations (including those not based on linear algebra), we also welcome work that focuses on libraries and frameworks to support applications that use graph algorithms. Finally, we have been pleasantly surprised to see graph algorithm building blocks used for problems outside graph analytics such as sparse machine learning.  We eagerly welcome such papers at GABB’18.

Our target audience is developers of graph algorithms, researchers in high-performance computing working on irregular applications, applied mathematicians working on fundamental algorithmic building blocks for graph computations, and application scientists using graphs in their computational work and data analysis.

Location:

IPDPS 2018 logoThis workshop is co-located with IPDPS 2018, held 21-25 May 2018, at the JW Marriott Parq Vancouver, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Registration information for IPDPS2018 can be found at here.

 

Details and Dates

To submit a paper, upload a PDF copy here:
https://easychair.org/cfp/GABB18?track=203979
Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references (see IPDPS Call for Papers for more details). All papers will be reviewed. Proceedings of the workshops are distributed at the conference and are submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference.

 

GABB 2018 Agenda

Session

Title

Authors

Keynote Session

(8:30am-10am)

Graph Algorithms in the Language of Linear Algebra: How Did We Get Here, and Where Do We Go Next?

John Gilbert

Spectral Graph Drawing: Building Blocks and Performance Analysis

Shad Kirmani and Kamesh Madduri

 

Morning Break (10-10:30am)

1

(10:30am-12)

Generating Graphs with known properties

Parallel generation of large-scale random graphs

Anil Vullikanti

Design, Generation, and Validation of Extreme Scale Power-Law Graphs

Jeremy Kepner and Sid Samsi   

On Large-Scale Graph Generation with Validation of Diverse Triangle Statistics at Edges and Vertices

Geoffrey Sanders, Roger Pearce, Timothy La Fond and Jeremy Kepner

 

Lunch (12-1:30pm)

2

(1:30pm-3pm)

GraphBLAS implementations

Patterns of GraphBLAS Algorithms: Tales from the Trenches

Scott McMillian

Implementing the GraphBLAS C API

Jose Moreira, Manoj Kumar and William Horn

PyGB: GraphBLAS DSL in Python with Dynamic Compilation into Efficient C++

Jesse Chamberlin, Marcin Zalewski, Scott McMillan and Andrew Lumsdaine

 

Afternoon Break (3-3:30pm)

3

(3:30pm-5pm)

Graph Building Blocks community meeting

A Survey of Modern Analysis on Graphs: Open Problems

Chris Long

Panel: Graph Building Blocks in Graph Applications

 

Panelists: Jose Moreira, Chris Long, and Marcin Zalewski.

 

Moderator: Tim Mattson



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