LINEAR_SOLVE_DISTRIBUTED is a MATLAB program which solves a linear system A*x=b using MATLAB's spmd facility, so that the matrix A is "distributed" across multiple MATLAB workers.
This example only illustrates the use of spmd, but does not really explain much about what's going on.
We use a number of MATLAB workers, LAB_NUM.
We declare a matrix A of size N by N, but we use the codistributor() function, so that A is distributed among the workers, which each get an N by (N/LAB_NUM) portion of the matrix.
With a given right hand side b, MATLAB's backslash function is able to solve the linear system A*x=b, even though the matrix is distributed.
The result, x is compared to the exact solution (a vector of 1's) and the norm of the error is returned.
The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.
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The User's Guide for the Parallel Computing Toolbox is available at http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/pdf_doc/distcomp/distcomp.pdf
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