Syntax

Description

cancel(F) stops the queued and running futures contained in F. No action is taken for finished futures. Each element of F that is not already in state 'finished' has its State property set to 'finished', and its Error property is set to contain an MException indicating that execution was cancelled.

Examples

Run a function several times until a satisfactory result is found. In this case, the array of futures F is cancelled when a result is greater than 0.95.

N = 100;
for idx = N:-1:1
    F(idx) = parfeval(@rand,1); % Create a random scalar
end
result = NaN; % No result yet.
for idx = 1:N
    [~, thisResult] = fetchNext(F);
    if thisResult > 0.95
        result = thisResult;
        % Have all the results needed, so break
        break;
    end
end
% With required result, cancel any remaining futures
cancel(F)
result

See Also

fetchNext | fetchOutputs | isequal | parfeval | parfevalOnAll