Didn't recognize full workers when using 'matlabpool'?
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Hi,
I have trouble in connecting to full labs for the parallel computing.
>> matlabpool open
Starting matlabpool using the 'local' profile ... connected to 2 labs.
As you can see above, only two labs could be connected for the parallel computing, but I am using quad-core PC that means four labs have to be connected. Moreover, the strange thing is that four labs was connected when using the Matlab version R2008a (Now I am using Matlab version R2012a).
Would you help me out with that problem?
Thank you.
Seongjun Park
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Kaustubha Govind
2012-4-6
How about if you say "matlabpool open 4"?
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Jason Ross
2012-4-6
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I would venture to guess that you have a machine with hyper-threading. This essentially means that two cores are presented as four. You can read more about it here:
If you wish to open four labs, you can do so by using Kaustubha's suggestion or by changing the NumWorkers property of the local scheduler to have four.
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Seongjun
2012-4-6
Jason Ross
2012-4-6
You are seeing exactly what I've seen on most hyperthreaded systems. Since there are only two cores that execute things, they get fully loaded and execute things. When you bump up the workers to four, you are still waiting on the execution to happen, and it makes no actual difference towards overall execution time.
Another way of putting it is that you have four units of work, and a processor that can effectively deal with only two units of work at a time. With two workers, they each process two units of work in 15 seconds, giving you four units of work processed. With four workers, each one gets a unit of work, but the processor can only really deal with two units of work, so it processes those, then moves onto the two workers that are waiting.
It's also entirely possible to have conditions where memory becomes a bottleneck, or where disk I/O will become a bottleneck, as well.
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Thomas
2012-4-6
If you have a quad core machine
Try
matlabpool open local 4
( it it errors out) You might have to change the default no. of workers in your local configuration. Goto
Parallel>Manage Cluster Profile> Local> edit (at the bottom)
Number of Workers to start on your local machine
NumWorkers 4
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