Why does not Matlab use the full capacity of my computer while training a neural network?
My goal is to train a neural network to classify objects form pictures of my webcam. I use transfer learning with Alexnet and I have a labeled training data set with 25,000 images.
My training script works perfectly, but the progress of the iterations during training is very slow. I have the Parallel Computing Toolbox installed and the training runs on the Single GPU. But when looking at the task manager, Matlab only uses 13 % of the CPU and just 2 % of the GPU. Why does not Matlab use more resources to speed up the training process?
The software is Windows 10 and I have the newest version of Matlab 64bit installed.
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You surely don’t keep all 25000 images in memory at once. Instead, you probably use and re-use them. over and over again. So, what you probably should be doing is looking at your disk access rate. Reading an image takes relatively a lot of time, but it is not really CPU time that is consumed. The CPU spends much of its time just waiting for data. So the CPU is not shown as busy. This is just my prediction of course, as evidenced by the statistics you report.
Can you confirm this fact? Of course! You need to learn about the Profile topol that MATLAB provides. It allows you to turn the profiler on, then run your code. Then check where MATLAB was spending the most time. This is an important thing to do for ANY code. My prediction is when you do the profile on your code, it will show the most time is consumed in one line of code — probably a simple imread call.
Now, why did I recognize the issue is NOT single threading versus multi-threading?
For example, my computer has 4 cores on it. I can easily force MATLAB to access all 4 cores in an operation, because I know which operations MATLAB will tend to automatically multi-thread. Likewise, I can as easily force MATLAB to runflat out, but only on ONE thread, since again, I know that some operations are NOT automatically parallelized.
An example of the former would the multiplication of two very large matrices. MATLAB will do that on as many cores as it can get. In the latter case, a very large symbolic computation is a good example. That is a problem that appears to be often not so easily parallelized, so no matter how large, it will run in only one core.
Again, you can see this happening in a monitor that can report the activty of all of your cores. In the first case of the matrix multiply, it will show 400% core usage. (As well, my system fan will kick on to dissipate all the heat generated when that much work is being done.) But in the latter case of the single threaded symbolic computation, only one core will be seen, running flat out at 100%.
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