%0 Conference Paper %B 17th IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC '13) %D 2013 %T Standards for Graph Algorithm Primitives %A Tim Mattson %A David Bader %A Jon Berry %A Aydin Buluc %A Jack Dongarra %A Christos Faloutsos %A John Feo %A John Gilbert %A Joseph Gonzalez %A Bruce Hendrickson %A Jeremy Kepner %A Charles Lieserson %A Andrew Lumsdaine %A David Padua %A Steve W. Poole %A Steve Reinhardt %A Mike Stonebraker %A Steve Wallach %A Andrew Yoo %K algorithms %K graphs %K linear algebra %K software standards %X It is our view that the state of the art in constructing a large collection of graph algorithms in terms of linear algebraic operations is mature enough to support the emergence of a standard set of primitive building blocks. This paper is a position paper defining the problem and announcing our intention to launch an open effort to define this standard. %B 17th IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC '13) %I IEEE %C Waltham, MA %8 2013-09 %G eng %R 10.1109/HPEC.2013.6670338