Matlab Parpool on Cluster

I requested 300 workers on the cluster but using parpool('local',320,'IdleTimeout', 300). However, it prints >> >> Starting parallel pool (parpool) using the 'local' profile ... connected to 12 workers.

How do I use all of the workers?

Thanks!

Yang

[Adam]

Do you have 300 workers in your local pool? That sounds like a rather large amount! You can ask your pool for as many workers as you want, but it will only give you as many as it has.

e.g. I used to set mine to ask for 100 because I didn't want to limit on deployed machines to the number of cores I used to have on my own machine when building an executable. It would still only open 8 cores though if that is how many I had.

[Yang]

Thank you for help! I want to run Matlab on a cluster having 1600 cores not on my own laptop. Do you think I can use "local" to request 300 workers? Thanks!

[Adam]

As far as I am aware "local" means your own computer. You have to setup a network cluster if you want to use other computers too, but that isn't something I am familiar with as I only use a local pool.

[Yang]

Thanks! I will let you know once I figure out how to use it on remote linux cluster