Edric Ellis

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838 total contributions since 2011

Developer at MathWorks, working on Parallel Computing Toolbox. Professional Interests: parallel computing, distributed arrays, gpu

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How to set timeout to a function
You could use parfeval to do this, but I'm not sure how you might fit that in with the rest of your parpool usage. Here's the si...

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How can i use the output of function after parfor loop?
You need to output the result into some sort of "sliced variable". Basically this means outputting an array where one of the sub...

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Parfor converting object to double?
In older versions that exhibit the problematic behaviour, your best bet is probably to use a cell, like so: N = 3; resultCell ...

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Add rows to a table in a parfor loop
This problem should have been fixed in R2019b (please let me know if you're using a later version and things are not working). I...

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'Default' random seed when parallel pool is created?
Workers in a parallel pool have deterministic random number generation states set up each time they start up. This is described ...

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Pre-load data on multiple GPUs for parfor loop
You've got a number of options here depending on whether you can build the value of A directly on the workers. The simplest case...

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Problem with parfor loop
That error basically means a worker crashed while trying to run the parfor loop. You mention that x is large. If you are using t...

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How to speed up simulink parallel simulation using parsim command inside a for loop
To see the benefit of parsim, you need to set up multiple SimulationInput instances ahead of time, and then make a single call t...

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Parfor Loop Error with Classification
I think you can adapt this to work with parfor, but it's going to be a little bit of a stretch. Your variable z_new can be consi...

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Critical code section inside parfor
Further to Walter's response, the closest analogy in parfor is a reduction variable. These may appear to be updated by multiple ...

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Can I use parfor and CVX togther
I'm not familiar with the CVX toolbox. However, a lot of parfor problems can be remedied by pushing the body of the loop into a ...

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How to set all one gpuArray in mex?
You basically have two options: either create and uninitialized mxGPUArray and fill the values using CUDA code (either a kernel,...

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How to check the Bytes of gpuArray?
Unfortunately, whos does not currently report the number of bytes used by a gpuArray on the GPU - the 4 bytes you see reported i...

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Alternative ways to slice/manage data using PARFOR
parfor can work with struct and cell, but it's often a bit tricky because you need to satisfy the requirement that the slicing i...

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Restart random numbers with parallel loop
The error that you're seeing there I think is because you've got an old version of your "State.mat" file - the error is the one...

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Behaviour ofparfeval depends on debugging state (Bug?)
I suspect this is because when you don't stop in the debugger, the function can return as soon as F gets into state 'running', i...

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Possible to speed up this gpuArray calculation with arrayfun() (or otherwise)?
A few points here. Firstly, (and most importantly), to time code on the GPU, you need to use either gputimeit, or you need to in...

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User defined functions with dynamic parameterisation in a parfor loops
This documentation for parfor notes various limitations - and also notes explicitly that you can create anonymous functions insi...

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In parfor-loop, can I call a multi-threaded mex and get some speed-up?
You should be able to run a multi-threaded MEX file correctly inside a parfor loop. However, you will be oversubscribing your ma...

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Parallel computing, occasionally get Exception message "Message Catalog MATLAB:load was not loaded from the file"
The probable cause of this is the file handle limit. This page: https://www.mathworks.com/help/parallel-computing/recommended-sy...

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How can I run parallel job on a specific node?
Based on this stackexchange answer https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/443438/how-to-submit-a-job-to-a-specific-node-using-...

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Are temporary variables eliminated at the end of each parfor loop on every single worker?
Yes, as mentioned in the documentation https://www.mathworks.com/help/parallel-computing/temporary-variable.html temporary varia...

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Help with parfor progress bar using data queue
The problem here is that the documentation example is using a nested function, which is able to acces variables in the containin...

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warning messages when using parfor in appdesigner app
It looks like you're either implicitly or explicitly using ASI within your parfor loop. You don't show the problematic code, but...

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Distributing individual tasks over my pool of workers, scaling should be perfect
There are several confounding factors here that go some way at least to explaining your timings. In your first example (the fo...

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Problem using parfor for reading variable sized chunks of data into a larger pre-allocated container
There's no simple way to do this without at least some duplication of data. With some duplication of data, you could do somethin...

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MATLAB NVIDIA Ampere GPU Support
See this answer: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/592198-does-matlab-support-nvidia-ampere-cards-for-gpu-computat...

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"unable to classify the variable in the body of the parfor-loop"
The doc page you mention describes the valid ways of getting results out of a parfor loop. In your case, you appear to be comput...

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cplex object params not transferred to parfor loop
The most likely cause of the problem here is that the output of Cplex cannot be saved to a file and then loaded again. Transfer ...

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Variable in parfor cannot be classified, error not shown in editor
The code you've shown there isn't complete enough for us to attempt to run and see the error you're encountering. It would be he...

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