Matlabpool very slow to open workers

Question

I have just put together a new rig (i7-4770K, 512gb SSD, 16gb DDR3 2133 mhz ram), and installed MATLAB r2013a. When I invoke the matlabpool command it takes an extremely long ti

Answer 1

This is indeed quite weird. In fact, MathWorks website states:

For disk-intensive MATLAB applications or to improve the start-up time of MATLAB, you can take advantage of technologies such as solid-state drives or RAID.

You can try to use this toolbox, it may solve your problems.