User`s guide

12-5
• JobDescriptionFile — A string set to the name of the XML file defining a base state
for job creation
Compatibility Considerations
CCS is now just one of multiple versions of HPC Server. While 'ccs' is still acceptable
as a type of scheduler for the findResource function, you can also use 'hpcserver' for
this purpose. In the Configurations Manager, the new scheduler type is available by
selecting File > New > hpcserver (ccs).
HPC Challenge Benchmarks
Several new MATLAB files are available to demonstrate HPC Challenge benchmark
performance. You can find the files in the folder matlabroot/toolbox/distcomp/
examples/benchmark/hpcchallenge. Each file is self-documented with explanatory
comments.
pctconfig Enhanced to Support Range of Ports
The pctconfig function now lets you specify a range of ports for the Parallel Computing
Toolbox client session to use. This range also includes ports used for a pmode session.
Compatibility Considerations
You now specify the range of pctconfig ports with the 'portrange' property; you
no longer use the 'port' property. As any client pmode session uses those ports of the
'portrange' setting, you no longer use the 'pmodeport' property.
Random Number Generator on Client Versus Workers
The random number generator of the MATLAB workers now use a slightly different seed
from previous releases, so that all the MATLAB workers and the client have separate
random number streams.
Compatibility Considerations
In past releases, while all the workers running a job had separate random number
streams, the client had the same stream as one of the workers. Now the workers all have
unique random number streams different from that of the client.