Action
A site-wide license for Matlab is administered by the University at Albany. Matlab can be run on the
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cluster with the GUI via X11 forwarding.
Be sure to use Matlab on a full stomach. Neither Matlab nor SUNY at Albany are responsible for any side effects of prolonged usage.
Instructions
Interactive Matlab
Running Matlab interactively requires a connection via SSH with X-forwarding. In the below examples, an Interactive Matlab session running on the cluster is demonstrated using X2Go with MATE desktophere with a macOS.
For more information on connecting to the cluster via SSH, please see How-to: Connect via SSH (PuTTY, macOS terminal, X2Go)
Connect to headto head-01.arcc.albany.edu with X-forwarding. Instruction on doing so, depending on your operating system can be found here.
Next, launch an interactive job using a command similar to the one below:
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--gres=gpu:1 # For one GPU
Now, we'll use the matlab module file to load matlab 2023a, via "module load matlab/2023a"
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Finally, type "matlab" and the GUI will spawn:
Once your job is complete and you exit the MATLAB GUI, be sure to cancel your job:
squeue -u your_netid JOBID PARTITION NAME USER ST TIME NODES NODELIST(REASON) 5385415 batch mrun your_netid R 6-06:44:30 1 uagc20-11 scancel 5385415 |
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Example SLURM Script for a non-interactive job:
#!/bin/bash #SBATCH -p batch #batch partition #SBATCH --cpus-per-task=2 # 2 cores #SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=2000 # 2GB memory #SBATCH --mail-type=ALL #SBATCH --mail-user=%u@albany.edu #email address #SBATCH -o /network/rit/home/%u/example-slurm-%j.out #log file #SBATCH --time=1-0:1 # Estimating the job will take 1 day, 0 hours, 1 minute
# source matlab module module load matlab/2023a
#Run the script matlab -nodesktop -nosplash -batch [your_script].m |
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