parfor loop exit: deterministic concurrent?

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I have a set of independent problems, which I can transfer to a parfor loop. The return value of each of these iterations is false or true. To shorten the computation, I want to exit the parfor loop at the first time the return value "true" has materialized (deterministic concurrent). How can I accomplish this task?

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 5 Feb 2017
The documentation indicates
"If you change parfor to for, the use of s outside the reduction assignment relies on the iterations being performed in a particular order. In a parfor-loop, it matters that the loop "does not care" about the value of a reduction variable as it goes along. It is only after the loop that the reduction value becomes usable."
so there is nothing you can check in the loop to determine whether you should continue. Though I guess you could write to a file and check the file.
Cleaner would be to parfeval() and as the results come back, when you finally get a true, cancel the remaining futures.
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Holger I. Meinhardt
Holger I. Meinhardt on 6 Feb 2017
Thanks a lot for your suggestion to use parfeval. It works as expected by some minor changes of my code.

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