How can I use multithreading in Matlab?

Hi everyone

I have this sample code here:

a=0;
x = 0;
m = 0;
while (a==0)
    m = m+1;
end 
for i = 1:60
pause (1)
    x = m;
if (i == 60)
    a = 1;
end

Is there a way to make the two loops "communicate" with each other at the same time? So that I can update the x value with the m value continuosly?

Thanks in advance

[Walter Roberson]

spmd with labSend and labReceive

[Adriano Gendy]

Thank you for your answer, I tried to used the functions you advised but I am having a little bit of trouble.

clear all
close all
clc

mpiInit
delete(gcp('nocreate'))
labs = parpool(2);

a=0;
x = 0;
m = 0;

spmd 
   m = m+1;
   labSend(m,2);
end

for i = 1:60
    pause (1)
    x = labReceive(1)
    if (i == 60)
        a = 1;
    end
end

So now I have two probelms:

1. the variable m does not update in the spmd and it is not considered and integere anymore but a Composite variable
2. labSend and labReceive do not work because I am not able to define which Lab is the receiver and which the one that sends the value (I tred also the function labSendReceive which does not give me any error and I am abke to pass with it the value m, but m is a Composite and I don't know hot to make it an integer)

Thank you again

Answer 1

[Ed Mitchell]

For people that are finding this MATLAB answer while searching more generally for how MATLAB manages the number of cores and hyperthreading, please refer to the following MATLAB Answer for more details.

Hyperthreading & Number of Cores

Answer 2

[Dinesh Yadav]

Hi, there are two for loops in the above code. The way MATLAB multi-threading works in case of for loops is it checks for loops and dependent variables between for loops. If there is no dependency they will be parallized otherwise they remain in serial execution. In case of above code as variable x is dependent on m these for loops cannot be parallized.

Also go through similar questions links below asked in community .

https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/277216-how-to-use-parallel-programming-or-multi-threading-or-multicore-in-matlab

https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/38117-multi-threading