MATLAB: How to gather results from a parfor loop

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Hi all,
I'm new to parallel computing in MATLAB, please forgive my simple question.
I have a test code like this, while I'd like to extract the otpt matrix at 10000th iteration:
inpt = rand(5);
parfor i = 1:10000
      otpt = sin(inpt);
end
After running this paralleled code, no error appears, but if I call otpt:
>> otpt
Undefined function or variable 'otpt'.
What if I need the value of otpt?
I did something like this:
inpt = rand(5);
temp = zeros(5);
parfor i = 1:10000
      otpt = sin(inpt);
      if i == 10000
          temp = temp + otpt;
      end
  end
In this way I can extract the value of otpt at 10000th iteration, but intuitively I do not feel this is correct. So how can I get the value of otpt?
Thank you!

Best Answer

The issue here is that otpt is assigned separately on each of the workers, this makes its classification as a temporary variable. If you would like to access the values afterwards you would want to assign to a reduction or a slicing variable. What you did in the second example is perfectly acceptable, although the example is unrealistic as why use a parfor loop if you only care about the result at a specific iteration?
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