User`s guide

7 Program Independent Jobs

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This example function uses only the three default arguments. You can have

additional arguments passed into your submit function, as discussed in “MATLAB

Client Submit Function” on page 7-22.

Identify the values you want to send to your environment variables. For convenience,

you define local variables for use in this function.

decodeFcn = 'mydecodefunc';

jobLocation = get(props, 'JobLocation');

taskLocations = get(props, 'TaskLocations'); %This is a cell array

storageLocation = get(props, 'StorageLocation');

storageConstructor = get(props, 'StorageConstructor');

The name of the decode function that must be available on the MATLAB worker

path is mydecodefunc.

Set the environment variables, other than the task locations. All the MATLAB

workers use these values when evaluating tasks of the job.

setenv('MDCE_DECODE_FUNCTION', decodeFcn);

setenv('MDCE_JOB_LOCATION', jobLocation);

setenv('MDCE_STORAGE_LOCATION', storageLocation);

setenv('MDCE_STORAGE_CONSTRUCTOR', storageConstructor);

Your submit function can use any names you choose for the environment variables,

with the exception of MDCE_DECODE_FUNCTION; the MATLAB worker looks for its

decode function identified by this variable. If you use alternative names for the other

environment variables, be sure that the corresponding decode function also uses your

alternative variable names. You can see the variable names used in the standard

decode function by typing

edit parallel.cluster.generic.independentDecodeFcn

Set the task-specific variables and scheduler commands. This is where you instruct

your scheduler to start MATLAB workers for each task.

for i = 1:props.NumberOfTasks

setenv('MDCE_TASK_LOCATION', taskLocations{i});

constructSchedulerCommand;

end

The line constructSchedulerCommand represents the code you write to construct

and execute your scheduler’s submit command. This command is typically a string

that combines the scheduler command with necessary flags, arguments, and values