PARALLEL PROCESSING PROBLEM AND SOLUTION - A CASE STUDY ON MATLAB PARALLEL COMPUTING TOOLBOX DISTRIBUTED ARRAYS

Wan Asywad bin Zainal Abidin #1, Mohamed Faidz Mohamed Said #2

# Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA
70300 Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, MALAYSIA

1 asywadzainal@gmail.com
2 faidzms@ieee.org

 
Abstract—MATLAB is a software that provides a programming language used for calculations of the matrix, developing and running algorithms, creating user interfaces and visualisation. It is a matrix laboratory for solving many technical computing problems with its applications system. Its matrix laboratory is used to solve many technical computing problems with its applications system. The purpose of this research is to provide understanding about the Parallel Computing Toolbox (PCT) in MATLAB. Moreover, there are several related benefits of using parallel processing involving distributed arrays. During a large data processing, a great amount of computing power is required to process the data. The PCT is applied to present more solutions that distributed arrays can trade-off to easily provide the required performance of large data by using the toolbox provided. Finally, MATLAB parallel computing provides the needed solution for any given problem without taking extra time and cost. Thus, the uses of parallel processing or parallel computing have become one of the prevalent common ways to help users in solving many application problems nowadays.

Keyword: MATLAB, distributed arrays, Parallel Computing Toolbox (PCT)


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