getCurrentWorker

Get worker object from current worker

Syntax

w = getCurrentWorker

Description

w = getCurrentWorker returns the current worker, as a parallel.Worker object. Use getCurrentWorker to get information from the worker during a computation, such as the worker host name.

If getCurrentWorker is evaluated on a worker, w is a parallel.Worker object. Otherwise, w is an empty double.

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Examples

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Get Host Name of Worker

Use the Host property to find the host name of the current worker.

On a worker, use getCurrentWorker to get the current worker object w.

w = getCurrentWorker;

Then, use the Host property to get the host name of the worker.

host = w.Host;

Output Arguments

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`w` — Worker object
`parallel.Worker` | `[]`

Worker object, specified as a parallel.Worker or empty double. When you use getCurrentWorker on a worker, w is the parallel.Worker object that the current worker is associated with. When you use getCurrentWorker on the client, w is an empty double.

Data Types: parallel.Worker

Version History

Introduced before R2006a