octave
We’ve tested the parallel package for Octave and it seems to work fairly well. To install this in your local folder run Octave and type:

pkg install -verbose -local -forge struct
pkg install -verbose -local -forge parallel
pkg list
Package Name  | Version | Installation directory
--------------+---------+-----------------------
    parallel *|   3.1.3 | /home/user/octave/parallel-3.1.3
      struct *|  1.0.15 | /home/user/octave/struct-1.0.15

From now on each time you launch Octave just type:

pkg load parallel

We ran the following arbitrary code against 10 cores

pkg load parallel
A=rand(100);
B=rand(100);
fun = @(x) A*B + A/B - exp(A) + exp(B);
vector_x = 1:100;
tic()
vector_y = pararrayfun(nproc, fun, vector_x);
toc()

Where nproc varied from 1:10 depending on the job requirements specified by ppn. The following speedup was observed:
octavespeed

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