User`s guide

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Local Scheduler and Workers
A local scheduler allows you to schedule jobs and run up to four workers or labs on a
single MATLAB client machine without requiring engine licenses. These workers/labs
can run distributed jobs or parallel jobs, including pmode sessions, for all products for
which the MATLAB client is licensed. This local scheduler and its workers do not require
a job manager or third-party scheduler.
New pmode Interface
The interactive parallel mode (pmode) has a new interface. The pmode command input
and displays of the lab outputs are provided in a user interface that you can separate
from the MATLAB client Command Window.
Compatibility Considerations
In previous versions of Distributed Computing Toolbox, the pmode interface used the
MATLAB Command Window, with the pmode input using a different prompt. The output
from the labs was intermingled with the MATLAB client output.
New Default Scheduler for pmode
If you start pmode without specifying a configuration,
pmode start
pmode automatically starts a parallel job using the local scheduler with labs running on
the client machine. For more information about running pmode, see Interactive Parallel
Computation with pmode in the Distributed Computing Toolbox documentation.
Compatibility Considerations
In the previous version of the toolbox, when pmode was started without specifying a
configuration, it searched the network for the first available job manager to use as a
scheduler.