VT_2010_PARFOR
Parallel MATLAB: Parallel FOR Loops

These slides are a lecture on parallel MATLAB, as implemented on the Ithaca computer cluster at Virginia Tech's Advanced Research Computing facility. The lecture was given 3pm - 4pm, Friday, 04 June 2010, in room 3060, Torgersen Hall.

A PDF version is available as ../../presentations/vt_2010_parfor.pdf.

Some information for those interested in attending the lecture is included in vt_2010_parfor.txt.

The files used for this presentation include

• boat.png, an image illustrating small boats in a strong current.
• compute.m, a MATLAB function, part of the MD program, which computes interparticle forces.
• integrate.m, a MATLAB function which estimates the integral of a function f(x); it is to be converted into a parallel program using PARFOR.
• local_matlab.png, an image that suggests the system of local workers available on a desktop machine.
• md.png, an image that suggests the molecular dynamics simulation computation.
• md_profile.pdf, the performance report returned by MATLAB's profile command for the MD program.
• md_speedup.png, a plot of the speedup in execution time for a parallel version of the MD program.
• ode_sweep_display.m, a MATLAB function which plots the data computed by ode_sweep_parfor.
• ode_sweep_parfor.m, a MATLAB function which evaluates the maximum value of the solution of an ODE for a given set of parameters.
• ode_sweep_parfor.png, an image of a plot of the maximum solution values over a range of two parameters.
• parallel_matlab.png, an image that suggests the system of local and remote workers available to a user via the Distributed Compute Server.
• prime.m, a MATLAB function to count the number of primes less than or equal to N.
• prime.png, an image that suggests the prime number sieve.
• prime_parallel.m, a parallel MATLAB function to count the number of primes less than or equal to N.
• prime_parallel_run.m, interactive commands to run the parallel version of the prime number function.
• prime_script.m, a version of the prime number function rewritten as a script.
• spring_mass.png, an image of a spring-mass system.
• vt_2010_parfor.tex, "Parallel MATLAB: PARFOR and Local Parallel Programming".
• vt_logo.pdf, a Virginia Tech logo.

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