Using parfor eliminates use of multithreading

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Jason Johnson
Jason Johnson 2021-10-11
评论： Raymond Norris 2021-10-12
I am using fmincon to fit a simulation to some experimental data. I am running my program on a Linux machine that has 20 cores. Within my objective function I make 8 calls to a function that runs my Forward Time Centered Space finite difference simulation. This is how I get my set of 8 simulation data points for the current set of design variables within fmincon. My cost function is then just the mean squared error of the experimental and simulation data points.
The function that runs my FTCS simulation is somewhat computationally expensive, so to speed things up I am using parfor in a pool with 8 workers to run all 8 simulations at once. However, using the "htop" command in Linux, I can see that parfor limits each simulation to a single core, with each core running at 100%.
Alternatively, if I just run the simulation outside of fmincon, running six different MATLAB jobs by entering the following into the Linux command line:
(
module load matlab; ulimit -u 8192; nohup matlab -nodisplay -nosplash -r "datestr(now), P = 20, V = 50, run('/folder/PolymerCode/FunctionSim_run_PIdiff.m');" > slot1.txt &
nohup matlab -nodisplay -nosplash -r "datestr(now), P = 20, V = 80, run('/folder/PolymerCode/FunctionSim_run_PIdiff.m');" > slot2.txt &
nohup matlab -nodisplay -nosplash -r "datestr(now), P = 20, V = 100, run('/folder/PolymerCode/FunctionSim_run_PIdiff.m');" > slot3.txt &
nohup matlab -nodisplay -nosplash -r "datestr(now), P = 20, V = 150, run('/folder/PolymerCode/FunctionSim_run_PIdiff.m');" > slot4.txt &
nohup matlab -nodisplay -nosplash -r "datestr(now), P = 20, V = 200, run('/folder/PolymerCode/FunctionSim_run_PIdiff.m');" > slot5.txt &
nohup matlab -nodisplay -nosplash -r "datestr(now), P = 20, V = 250, run('/folder/PolymerCode/FunctionSim_run_PIdiff.m');" > slot6.txt &
)
where FunctionSim_run_PIdiff.m is the same simulation I am calling 8 times within fmincon, I can see that all 20 cores of the machine are being used somewhat uniformly at around 80%.
Is there a way I can get these 8 calls to my simulation function within fmincon to use more multithreading while still using parfor? I have tried manually setting the max number of computational threads using
maxNumCompThreads(20)
but this had no effect.
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Jason Johnson
Jason Johnson 2021-10-11
parfeval() results in the same thing. My use and knowledge of batch() is limited, but if I am using it correctly it is also resulting in the same thing. It seems like for all of these it boils down to each run of the simulation is allocated to one worker and each worker is using a single thread.

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Raymond Norris
Raymond Norris 2021-10-11
Check the cluster objects' NumThreads property. For instance
local = parcluster('local');
local.NumThreads = <set-number-of-threads-for-each-worker-to-use>;
pool = local.parpool( <set-pool-size> );
Setting NumThreads will automatically set maxNumThreads on the workers.
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Jason Johnson
Jason Johnson 2021-10-11
This did the trick! So simple... Sometimes the documentation for the Parallel Computing toolbox can be so convoluted. Thank you for your help.
Raymond Norris
Raymond Norris 2021-10-12
Thanks for the feedback, Jason. I've passed your comment onto our Documentation.

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Matt J
Matt J 2021-10-11
编辑：Matt J 2021-10-11
If you are getting the best performance from the Linux command line, perhaps a solution would be to invoke the Linux command line from within Matlab. You could do that with the system() command.
https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/system.html#btnrzs7-1_sep_shared-cmdout
in combination with parFeval.

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