How many batch jobs can be run at a time?

When a batch job is given, how many workers work on the job(if i have 4 labs)?? And at a instant how many batch jobs can be given and how?

Answer 1

[Jason Ross]

To answer your first question ... it depends. You can have one worker per task or you can open a pool. There are examples of both in the "batch" documentation.

For your second question, if you exceed the amount of workers, the jobs will queue up and process as previous work finishes. You can monitor this using the Job Monitor, found under the "Parallel" menu.

You might also want to take a look at the jobs and tasks functionality if you need more control.

Batch: http://www.mathworks.com/help/toolbox/distcomp/batch.html

Job Monitor: http://www.mathworks.com/help/toolbox/distcomp/bs6why1-1.html

Jobs and Tasks: http://www.mathworks.com/help/toolbox/distcomp/f1-6010.html#f1-7659

[Sampath reddy]

i have matlab 7.6.0.. in this there is no job monitor.. what to do??

[Jason Ross]

1. Upgrade. :)

2. You can get the state of a job using the "state" command. http://www.mathworks.com/help/toolbox/distcomp/state.html