gbdemo2
GBDEMO2 Extreme performance differences: GraphBLAS vs MATLAB.
Usage:
gbdemo2 % uses a default bnz = 6000
gbdemo2 (20000) % uses bnz = 20000
The GraphBLAS operations used in gbdemo are perhaps 3x to 50x
faster than the corresponding MATLAB operations, depending on how
many cores your computer has. Here's an example where GraphBLAS is
asymptotically far faster than MATLAB R2019a: a simple assignment
for a large matrix C:
C(I,J) = A
The matrix C is constructed via C = kron (B,B) where nnz (B) is
roughly the bnz provided on input (with a default of bnz = 6000),
so that C will have about bnz^2 entries, or 36 million by default.
I and J are chosen randomly, and A is 5000-by-5000.
When the problem becomes large, MATLAB will take a very long time.
If you have enough memory, and want to see higher speedups in
GraphBLAS, increase bnz (and be prepared to wait even longer).
With the default bnz = 6000, this test takes about 4GB of RAM.
On my Dell XPS 4-core laptop (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U, 16GB
RAM), using MATLAB R2019a, when C becomes 9 million by 9 million,
the computation C(I,J)=A for MATLAB matrices C, I, J, and A takes
several minutes, whereas GraphBLAS takes less than a second, or
about 500x faster than MATLAB. On a desktop with an Intel(R)
Xeon(R) CPU E5-2698 v4 @ 2.20GHz with 20 hardware cores, the
speedup over MATLAB is even more dramatic (up to 2,660x has been
observed).
See also GrB.assign, subsasgn.
# of threads used in GraphBLAS: 8
C(I,J)=A where C is 1 million -by- 1 million
with 35.7126 million entries:
A is 5000-by-5000 with 49954 entries
setup time: 0.412634 sec
GraphBLAS time: 1.19528 sec
Starting MATLAB ... please wait ...
MATLAB time: 0.507453 sec
Speedup of GraphBLAS over MATLAB: 0.424546
check time: 0.570694 sec
all tests passed
C(I,J)=A where C is 4 million -by- 4 million
with 35.8202 million entries:
A is 5000-by-5000 with 49954 entries
setup time: 0.859294 sec
GraphBLAS time: 1.13881 sec
Starting MATLAB ... please wait ...
MATLAB time: 0.489687 sec
Speedup of GraphBLAS over MATLAB: 0.429997
check time: 0.591902 sec
all tests passed
C(I,J)=A where C is 9 million -by- 9 million
with 35.928 million entries:
A is 5000-by-5000 with 49954 entries
setup time: 0.800442 sec
GraphBLAS time: 1.17931 sec
Starting MATLAB ... please wait ...
MATLAB time: 155.789 sec
Speedup of GraphBLAS over MATLAB: 132.102
check time: 0.65189 sec
all tests passed
C(I,J)=A where C is 16 million -by- 16 million
with 35.916 million entries:
A is 5000-by-5000 with 49954 entries
setup time: 0.902976 sec
GraphBLAS time: 1.55605 sec
Starting MATLAB ... please wait ...
MATLAB time: 168.386 sec
Speedup of GraphBLAS over MATLAB: 108.213
check time: 0.658529 sec
all tests passed
C(I,J)=A where C is 25 million -by- 25 million
with 35.964 million entries:
A is 5000-by-5000 with 49954 entries
setup time: 1.0054 sec
GraphBLAS time: 1.24475 sec
Starting MATLAB ... please wait ...
MATLAB time: 187.577 sec
Speedup of GraphBLAS over MATLAB: 150.694
check time: 0.783732 sec
all tests passed
C(I,J)=A where C is 36 million -by- 36 million
with 35.976 million entries:
A is 5000-by-5000 with 49954 entries
setup time: 1.11575 sec
GraphBLAS time: 1.68189 sec
Starting MATLAB ... please wait ...
MATLAB time: 208.664 sec
Speedup of GraphBLAS over MATLAB: 124.065
check time: 0.839128 sec
all tests passed