how can I write a parallel code in Matlab?

hi every one, can you help me to write a program with parfor and compare the time consumed in comparing with for? The code is: matlabpool open local 7 tic parfor i = 1:100000 k=i end toc matlabpool close Elapsed time is 1.846197 seconds.

tic,for i = 1:100000 k=i end toc Elapsed time is 0.000640 seconds.

Answer 1

[Dima Lisin]

The reason you are seeing this result is because your loop does not do anything. If you make each iteration of your loop do substantial work, you will see a speedup.

[sasa]

yes,That's right.Thanks for your help. I have tested with this code and the result is ok.

matlabpool open local 7 tic parfor i = 1:10000 k=i; I = imread('cameraman.tif'); h = fspecial('motion',20,45); blur = imfilter(I,h,'replicate'); end toc matlabpool close

tic for i = 1:10000 k=i; I = imread('cameraman.tif'); h = fspecial('motion',20,45); blur = imfilter(I,h,'replicate'); end toc

Starting matlabpool using the 'local' profile ... connected to 7 workers. Elapsed time is 23.898915 seconds. Sending a stop signal to all the workers ... stopped.

Elapsed time is 49.894086 seconds.

Answer 2

[Edric Ellis]

Ideally, you should not open and close the pool for timing purposes - it's intended that you keep the pool open.