User`s guide

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Compatibility Considerations
This new feature has no impact on how configurations are used in a program, only on
how configurations are created and shared among users. In previous versions of the
product, you modified your configurations by editing the file matlabroot/toolbox/
distcomp/user/distcompUserConfig.m. Now the configuration data is stored as
part of your MATLAB software preferences.
The new configurations manager cannot directly import old-style configurations
that were defined in the distcompUserConfig.m file. However, a utility called
importDistcompUserConfig, available on the MATLAB Central Web site, allows
you to convert and import your existing configurations into the new configurations
manager. Visit http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral and search for
importDistcompUserConfig.
Default Configuration
This version of the toolbox enables you to select a user configuration to use as the default.
Thus, commands such as pmode and matlabpool will use the default configuration
without your having to specify it each time you run the command. You can set the default
configuration using the configurations graphical interface, or programmatically with the
defaultParallelConfig function.
Parallel Profiler
A new parallel profiler graphical user interface generates reports on lab computation
and communication times during execution of parallel jobs. For details about this new
feature, see Profiling Parallel Code.
MDCE Script for Red Hat Removed
The MDCE script rh_mdce, specific to Red Hat Linux
®
, has been removed from
matlabroot/toolbox/distcomp/util/bin.
Compatibility Considerations
If you make use of this script, you must replace it with its more generic equivalent,
matlabroot/toolbox/distcomp/bin/mdce.