Programatically determine Matlabpool Maximum Number of Local Workers

I'm developing some code which will be shared with colleagues running different versions of matlab. Is there a way to programatically tell the maximum number of workers in the local pool?

Answer 1

[Shashank Prasanna]

>> myCluster = parcluster('local');
>> myCluster.NumWorkers

For ver > R2012a, for earlier you may have to use findresource. This change is captured in the release notes for R2012a:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/distcomp/release-notes.html

If your colleagues use earlier releases, you may have to do a version check and then an if else block.

>> version -release

[Susan]

Thank you. I was able to use findresource on all of the matlab versions that interest us.