How-to run MATLAB

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

Versions

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

Talapas Desktop

Access Open OnDemand, Open OnDemand
In the top ribbon, select the ‘Interactive Apps' dropdown menu. Choose ‘Talapas Desktop'.
Enter account and job resource information. Once an allocation is granted, click 'Launch noVNC in New Tab'.
In the top ribbon of the Talapas Desktop, select Applications, Education, MATLAB. This will launch the MATLAB R2018b GUI.

Interactive

ssh onto a talapas login node, How to Login to Talapas
Start an interactive job, How-to Start an Interactive Job
Once on the allocated node enter,

$ module load matlab
$ matlab

Batch

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

#!/bin/bash

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

module load matlab

matlab -nodisplay < matlab-file.m

Submit the job

Use the sbatch command to submit the job.

$ sbatch matlab-job.srun

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