Reliability of Computational Experiments on Virtualised Hardware

Ian P. Gent and Lars Kotthoff

larsko@cs.st-andrews.ac.uk

University of St Andrews

Motivation

using the cloud as a computational resource

Motivation

using the cloud as a computational resource
reproducibility of experiments

Does using virtualised hardware introduce additional variation?

	StACC

	StACC

Small experiment

Large experiment

Questions?

Thank you!