Is there an alternative to parfor?

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Simon
Simon 2015-12-21
编辑： Mohammad Abouali 2015-12-23
Hello,
I run a simulation with several settings. Thus, it is possible to run more than one simulation at one time.
I get the settings from several loops, but before each simulation I check a MySQL database to find out if I run it before. Example:
for S1 = setting1
for S2 = setting2
parfor S3 = setting3
% if S1, S2, S3 is not available in the DB, run it, otherwise continue
end
end
end
It is possible to open Matlab by own 4 times and run the script instead of the parfor with a normal for. In this case, the script is more stable and if there is an error, just one worker stops and not all. This option is way better for the simulation but in the beginning it is not nice to start all manually.
Is there an option to program it this way, or is there a alternative to parfor? Debuging is with parfor also not easy because I don't get the line of the error.

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Mohammad Abouali
Mohammad Abouali 2015-12-22
编辑：Mohammad Abouali 2015-12-23
Couple of notes here:
NOTE 1 instead of only parallelizing the inner for-loop you can parallelize all of them as follow:
nSetting1=numel(setting1);
nSetting2=numel(setting2);
nSetting3=numel(setting3);
parfor idx=1:(nSetting1*nSetting2*nSetting3)
[idx3,idx2,idx1]=ind2sub([nSetting3,nSetting2,nSetting1],idx);
S1=setting1(idx1);
S2=setting2(idx2);
S3=setting3(idx3);
% if S1, S2, S3 is not available in the DB, run it, otherwise continue
end
The above code parallelize all the loops for you.
NOTE 2 The above code has the same issue as before, meaning if one worker fails all of them stop You can use try/catch block to overcome this as follow:
nSetting1=numel(setting1);
nSetting2=numel(setting2);
nSetting3=numel(setting3);
parfor idx=1:(nSetting1*nSetting2*nSetting3)
[idx3,idx2,idx1]=ind2sub([nSetting3,nSetting2,nSetting1],idx);
S1=setting1(idx1);
S2=setting2(idx2);
S3=setting3(idx3);
try
% if S1, S2, S3 is not available in the DB, run it, otherwise continue
catch
warning('Some error happened. skipping %d,%d,%d',idx1,idx2,idx3);
end
end
The above code generates a warning whenever an error occurs; but it won't stop from working and it continues. Of course you can change the catch block appropriately to do whatever you want it to do.
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson 2015-12-22
I suspect you mean
S1=setting1(idx1);
S2=setting2(idx2);
S3=setting3(idx3);
Mohammad Abouali
Mohammad Abouali 2015-12-23
编辑：Mohammad Abouali 2015-12-23
Yes. Copy/Paste effect :D Thank you for pointing this out

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