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Re: what is MATLAB POOL ?
Posted:
Mar 30, 2012 3:44 AM
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"Lahdan alfahian" <gamar_Saudi_gamar@hotmail.com> writes:
> I'm using PCT to understand how to make better prefomance by using GPU
> and have some questions for you guys
There are two quite different types of parallelism supported by PCT.
Firstly, there is the parallelism that comes of having multiple MATLAB
sessions working together on your problem. That's the sort of
parallelism offered by MATLAB Pool.
When you execute:
matlabpool open local 4
(or similar), that launches 4 additional MATLAB worker sessions
connected to your desktop MATLAB session. When you then run a PARFOR
loop
parfor ii=1:100
x(ii) = max(abs(eig(rand(1000))));
end
then the work for that loop is broken up and executed by the MATLAB
worker sessions.
The GPU parallelism is a different direction. You can place MATLAB data
on the GPU by executing
g = gpuArray(rand(1000));
and then when you execute
g2 = g * g;
the matrix multiplication happens in parallel on the GPU.
If you have multiple GPUs, you can in fact use PARFOR and gpuArrays
together. (If you have 1 powerful GPU, you might find that you get some
benefit using PARFOR with gpuArrays).
Cheers,
Edric.
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