Parallel Programming Doubt

Dear Madam/Miss,

I have saw your video on parallel computing and found it very interesting.

I been looking all over the website on how to submit a few jobs into matlab to allow it to run,shut down my computer and switch on sometime again to look at the results. Your video mentioned that parallel computing allow use to do that. However,i could not figure out how to do it. the parallel configuration i am able to use is only local,i cant seem to figure out how to set up another type of configuration although i been through the admin center guide. Could you please advise me?

thank you very much for spending time to read my post.

Sincerest regards, alvin

Answer 1

[Friedrich]

Hi,

Parallel Computing Toolbox allows you to run the computation locally only. If you want to do your calaculation on a different machine you would need MATLAB Distributed Computing Server:

http://www.mathworks.com/products/distriben/

This allows you to set up a cluster of worker on different PCs and you can connect to those out of your Parallel Computing Toolbox and start the calaculation on different machines. Which will allow you to shut down your pc without "killing" the calculation.

[Jason Ross]

As a further clarification -- if you already have access to an existing cluster like Torque, PBS Pro, HPC Server or LSF, you can use that, as well. There is some setup required to make it work, but it's a way you could re-use existing infrastructure that might already exist if you have it.

And, of course, MDCS will also work, as well.