Section: New Software and Platforms

GRPH

The high performance graph library for Java

Keywords: Graph - Graph algorithmics - Java

Functional Description: Grph is an open-source Java library for the manipulation of graphs. Its design objectives are to make it portable, simple to use/extend, computationally/memory efficient, and, according to its initial motivation: useful in the context of graph experimentation and network simulation. Grph also has the particularity to come with tools like an evolutionary computation engine, a bridge to linear programming solvers, a framework for distributed computing, etc.

Grph offers a very general model of graphs. Unlike other graph libraries which impose the user to first decide if he wants to deal with directed, undirected, hyper (or not) graphs, the model offered by Grph is unified in a general class that supports mixed graphs made of undirected and directed simple and hyper edges. Grph achieves great efficiency through the use of multiple code optimization techniques such as multi-core parallelism, caching, adequate data structures, use of primitive objects, exploitation of low-level processor caches, on-the-fly compilation of specific C/C++ code, etc. Grph attempts to access the Internet in order to check if a new version is available and to report who is using it (login name and hostname). This has no impact whatsoever on performance and security.

• Participants: Aurélien Lancin, David Coudert, Issam Tahiri, Luc Hogie and Nathann Cohen

• Contact: Luc Hogie

• URL: http://www.i3s.unice.fr/~hogie/grph/