maxNumCompThreads Replacement

Returns the number of available CPU cores

Description

maxNumCompThreads returns the number of available CPU cores, works with Windows, Linux, OpenBSD and MAC-OS, using a c-coded mex-file.

   N = maxNumCompThreads()

Replacement of the original "Matlab maxNumCompThreads" which will be removed in a future release.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.10 (2010a)

[Jveer]

or you could simply use the following undocumented function:

N=feature('Numcores');

[Dirk-Jan Kroon]

*JVeer
Cool, I never saw this undocumented function before. But it is of course the question if it will be presented in future versions.

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[Andrew]

How about the number of cores? If you are launching (single-threaded) processes then I think that's the number that's important.

[Sebastiaan]

This is hardly a replacement, as the original maxNumCompThreads is capable of actually setting the number of threads.

The planned removal of this capability has been bugging me for quite some time. I am thinking about reviving a custom function, using omp_set_num_threads:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/170152 (see comment 12). This should work at least for the BLAS subsystem.

[Mark Mikofski]

N = getenv('NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS')

let's you see max number of threads, halve it if you are hyperthreading, min with 12 or 8 depending which matlab version you have for max allowable matlab poolsize