Question

When I run Parallel >> Manage Congifurations…, Matlab fails to pass the Distributed Job, the Parallel Job and the Matlabpool tests. My system has a double core: Intel Core i5 CPU M520 @ 2.40GHz 2.40GHZ, 2GB RAM, Win7 64bit, Matlab R2011b. After the failed validation, I get the following output:

Validation Details

Configuration: “local” Type: local

————————————– Stage: Find Resource

Status: Passed Description: Validation passed

Command Line Output: (none)

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————————————– Stage: Distributed Job

Status: Failed Description: The given stage reached the default or
user-specified timeout.

Command Line Output: (none)

Error Report: (none)

Debug Log: LOG FILE OUTPUT:

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————————————– Stage: Parallel Job

Status: Failed Description: The given stage reached the default or
user-specified timeout.

Command Line Output: (none)

Error Report: (none)

Debug Log: LOG FILE OUTPUT:

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————————————– Stage: Matlabpool

Status: Failed Description: A MATLAB pool is already open and might
interfere with further testing. To avoid this, before the next test
run try executing “matlabpool close”.

Command Line Output: (none)

Error Report: (none)

Debug Log: (none)

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Answer 1

This is pretty much what I get if I’ve called matlabpool prior to running the validation checks. You did pay attention to the advice given in the Status report from the Matlabpool stage didn’t you, about closing an open matlabpool ?