Towards a GraphBLAS Implementation for Go

Abstract

The GraphBLAS are building blocks for constructing graph algorithms as linear algebra. They are defined mathematically with the goal that they would eventually map onto a variety of programming languages. Today they exist in C, C++, Python, MATLAB®, and Julia. In this paper, we describe the GraphBLAS for the Go programming language. A particularly interesting aspect of this work is that using the concurrency features of the Go language, we aim to build a runtime system that uses the GraphBLAS nonblocking mode by default.