Use parfor-Loops for Reduction Assignments - MATLAB & Simulink (original) (raw)
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These two examples show parfor-loops using reduction assignments. A reduction is an accumulation across iterations of a loop. The example on the left usesx to accumulate a sum across 10 iterations of the loop. The example on the right generates a concatenated array, 1:10. In both of these examples, the execution order of the iterations on the workers does not matter: while the workers calculate individual results for each iteration, the client properly accumulates and assembles the final loop result.
| x = 0; parfor i = 1:10 x = x + i; end x x = 55 | x2 = []; n = 10; parfor i = 1:n x2 = [x2, i]; end x2 x2 = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 |
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If the loop iterations operate in a nondeterministic sequence, you might expect the concatenation sequence in the example on the right to be nonconsecutive. However, MATLAB® recognizes the concatenation operation and yields deterministic results.
The next example, which attempts to compute Fibonacci numbers, is not a validparfor-loop because the value of an element off in one iteration depends on the values of other elements off calculated in other iterations.
f = zeros(1,50); f(1) = 1; f(2) = 2; parfor n = 3:50 f(n) = f(n-1) + f(n-2); end
When you are finished with your loop examples, clear your workspace and delete your parallel pool of workers: