clear all
maxNumCompThreads ('automatic') ;
GrB.clear ;
gbdemo2
GBDEMO2 Extreme performance differences: GraphBLAS vs MATLAB.
Usage:
gbdemo2 % uses a default bnz = 6000
gbdemo2 (20000) % uses bnz = 20000
Many of 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: 20
C(I,J)=A where C is 1 million -by- 1 million
with 35.7126 million entries:
A is 5000-by-5000 with 49947 entries
setup time: 0.390645 sec
GraphBLAS time: 0.234829 sec
Starting MATLAB ... please wait ...
MATLAB time: 0.446352 sec
Speedup of GraphBLAS over MATLAB: 1.90075
check time: 0.338023 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 49947 entries
setup time: 0.419104 sec
GraphBLAS time: 0.188447 sec
Starting MATLAB ... please wait ...
MATLAB time: 0.457352 sec
Speedup of GraphBLAS over MATLAB: 2.42695
check time: 0.223661 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 49947 entries
setup time: 0.492746 sec
GraphBLAS time: 0.24531 sec
Starting MATLAB ... please wait ...
MATLAB time: 228.271 sec
Speedup of GraphBLAS over MATLAB: 930.539
check time: 0.252814 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 49947 entries
setup time: 0.565352 sec
GraphBLAS time: 0.291133 sec
Starting MATLAB ... please wait ...
MATLAB time: 246.843 sec
Speedup of GraphBLAS over MATLAB: 847.872
check time: 0.278656 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 49947 entries
setup time: 0.632634 sec
GraphBLAS time: 0.259097 sec
Starting MATLAB ... please wait ...
MATLAB time: 270.564 sec
Speedup of GraphBLAS over MATLAB: 1044.26
check time: 0.332214 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 49947 entries
setup time: 0.711984 sec
GraphBLAS time: 0.434453 sec
Starting MATLAB ... please wait ...
MATLAB time: 301.998 sec
Speedup of GraphBLAS over MATLAB: 695.121
check time: 0.361509 sec
all tests passed