The Speedup Test - Inria - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique
  Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
Rapport (Rapport Technique) Année : 2010

The Speedup Test

Résumé

Numerous code optimisation methods are usually experimented by doing multiple observations of the initial and the optimised executions times in order to declare a speedup. Even with fixed input and execution environment, programs executions times vary in general. So hence different kinds of speedups may be reported: the speedup of the average execution time, the speedup of the minimal execution time, the speedup of the median, etc. Many published speedups in the literature are observations of a set of experiments. In order to improve the reproducibility of the experimental results, this technical report presents a rigorous statistical methodology regarding program performance analysis. We rely on well known statistical tests (Shapiro-wilk's test, Fisher's F-test, Student's t-test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov's test, Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney's test) to study if the observed speedups are statistically significant or not. By fixing $0<\alpha<1$ a desired risk level, we are able to analyse the statistical significance of the average execution time as well as the median. We can also check if $\prob{X>Y}>\frac{1}{2}$, the probability that an individual execution of the optimised code is faster than the individual execution of the initial code. Our methodology defines a consistent improvement compared to the usual performance analysis method in high performance computing as in \cite{Jain:1991:ACS,lilja:book}. We explain in each situation what are the hypothesis that must be checked to declare a correct risk level for the statistics. The Speedup-Test protocol certifying the observed speedups with rigorous statistics is implemented and distributed as an open source tool based on R software.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
SpeedupTestDocument.pdf (587.91 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
SpeedupTestSlides.pdf (8.28 Mo) Télécharger le fichier
SpeedupTestTool.tar.bz2 (607.91 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
Origine Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s)
Format Autre
Format Autre

Dates et versions

inria-00443839 , version 1 (07-01-2010)
inria-00443839 , version 2 (26-01-2010)

Identifiants

  • HAL Id : inria-00443839 , version 2

Citer

Sid Touati, Julien Worms, Sébastien Briais. The Speedup Test. [Technical Report] Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines (UVSQ). 2010, pp.38. ⟨inria-00443839v2⟩
1648 Consultations
1312 Téléchargements

Partager

More