PARFOR in real applications

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Jan
Jan 2021년 3월 4일
답변: Jan 2022년 5월 16일
I've installed the Parallel Computing Toolbox for some experiments with my code. To my surprise none of the codes run faster with PARFOR compared to sequential FOR loops.
Examples:
  1. https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/762196-how-can-i-efficiently-add-multiple-arrays-generated-in-a-loop
  2. Another example was a simple loop calling the external lame.exe function:
lamebin = 'C:\Program_\lame3.99.5\lame.exe';
switches = ' -m j -h -V 1 -q 2 --vbr-new --nohist';
WavFiles = dir(fullfile(Folder, '*.wav'));
parfor iWav = 1:nFile
aFile = fullfile(Folder, WavFiles(iWav).name);
[aPath, aFile] = fileparts(aFile);
aMP3 = fullfile(aPath, [aFile, '.mp3']);
[s, w] = dos([lamebin, switches, '"', aFile, '" "', aMP3, '"']);
end
Both examples take about the double time than a FOR loop on my 2 core CPU, but there is no acceleration on the 4 core also. The RAM is not exhausted in both cases.
Questions:
  • Are there obvious mistakes in my naive approachs?
  • How do you use PARFOR in your applications to accelerates the processing on a pool with 2 or 4 local workers? I know the examples from the documentation, but I was not successful yet to implement it in my codes.
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Mario Malic
Mario Malic 2021년 3월 4일
Approximately, how long does take for one run of your program?
Edric Ellis
Edric Ellis 2021년 3월 5일
I presume when you're trying with Java you are running multiple "lame" processes simultaneously, and seeing a sensible speed-up? (I was going to speculate that perhaps disk access was limiting performance, but if you're able to get expected performance running multiple processes a different way, then that would seem unlikely).

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Jan
Jan 2022년 5월 16일
After trying many examples from many questions in the forum, I've found:
This runs 25% with parfor on my weak i5 mobile with 2 cores.
[TO BE EXPANDED] I'm going to add further examples here...

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