How-to run Mathematica

This article gives a 3 simple examples showing how to run Mathematica on Talapas.

Versions

We have several versions available, to view run, module available Mathematica

Talapas Desktop

1. Access Open OnDemand, Open OnDemand

2. In the top ribbon, select the ‘Interactive Apps' dropdown menu. Choose ‘Talapas Desktop'.

3. Enter account and job resource information. Once an allocation is granted, click 'Launch noVNC in New Tab'.

4. In the top ribbon of the Talapas Desktop, click the MATE Terminal icon to open a terminal window.

5. Enter,

module load Mathematica
mathematica

This will launch the Mathematica 12 GUI.

Interactive

1. ssh onto a talapas login node, How-to Log Into Talapas

2. Start an interactive job, How-to Start an Interactive Job

3. Once on the allocated node enter,

module load Mathematica
math

This will launch the Mathematica 12 Kernel.

Batch

For longer running non-interactive use cases call Mathematica in batch. Create the file math-job.srun. In the file, add the desired slurm declarations, load the module, call the application.

#!/bin/bash

#SBATCH --account=<pirg-name>
#SBATCH --job-name=mat-job
#SBATCH --output=mat-job.out
#SBATCH --error=mat-job.err

module load Mathematica

math -run < math-file.m

Submit the job

Use the sbatch command to submit the job.

$ sbatch mat-job.srun