Much work has been dedicated to estimating and optimizing workloads in high-performance computing (HPC) and deep learning. However, researchers have typically relied on few metrics to assess the efficiency of those techniques. Most notably, the accuracy, the loss of the prediction, and the computational time with regard to GPUs or/and CPUs characteristics. It is rare to see figures for power consumption, partly due to the difficulty of obtaining accurate power readings. In this paper, we introduce a composite score that aims to characterize the trade-off between accuracy and power consumption measured during the inference of neural networks. For this purpose, we present a new open-source tool allowing researchers to consider more metrics: granular power consumption, but also RAM/CPU/GPU utilization, as well as storage, and network input/output (I/O). To our best knowledge, it is the first fit test for neural architectures on hardware architectures. This is made possible thanks to reproducible power efficiency measurements. We applied this procedure to state-of-the-art neural network architectures on miscellaneous hardware. One of the main applications and novelties is the measurement of algorithmic power efficiency. The objective is to allow researchers to grasp their algorithms' efficiencies better. This methodology was developed to explore trade-offs between energy usage and accuracy in neural networks. It is also useful when fitting hardware for a specific task or to compare two architectures more accurately, with architecture exploration in mind.

通过引入一个复合分数来衡量精确度和功耗在神经网络推断过程中的权衡，本文提出了一个新的开源工具，使研究人员能够考虑更多的指标，包括细粒度的功耗、RAM/CPU/GPU利用率，以及存储和网络的输入/输出。该方法被用于探索神经网络的能耗和精确度之间的折衷，同时也有助于对比两种架构，以更准确地适配硬件和进行架构探索。

高效计算的神经网络评分