PRIME_SPMD is a MATLAB program which counts the number of primes between 1 and N, executing in parallel using MATLAB's SPMD facility.
The algorithm is completely naive. For each integer I, it simply checks whether any smaller J evenly divides it. The total amount of work for a given N is thus roughly proportional to 1/2*N^2.
There is very little memory traffic and no communication, so this program is a good test for the pure computational speedup offered by MATLAB's Parallel Programming Toolbox.
The basic function has the form:
function total = prime_fun ( n )where
Depending on the situation, the function could be executed in parallel:
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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