User`s guide

6 Programming Overview
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Parallel Preferences
You can access parallel preferences in the general preferences for MATLAB. To open the
Preferences dialog box, use any one of the following:
• On the Home tab in the Environment section, click Parallel > Parallel
Preferences
• Click the desktop pool indicator icon, and select Parallel preferences.
• In the command window, type
preferences
In the navigation tree of the Preferences dialog box, click Parallel Computing
Toolbox.
The parallel preferences dialog box looks something like this:
You can control the following with your preference settings:
• Default Cluster — This is the default on which a pool is opened when you do not
otherwise specify a cluster.
• Preferred number of workers — This specifies the number of workers to form a pool,
if possible. The actual pool size might be limited by licensing, cluster size, and cluster
profile settings. See “Pool Size and Cluster Selection” on page 2-46.