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Another example might involve running a MATLAB script which might look something like the following:
{{{
j=c.batch('sphere',1, {})
}}}

The command above submits a MATLAB job for the script "sphere" to the Matilda cluster.

MATLAB

Overview

Oakland University has obtained a campus wide license (CWL) for MATLAB. This permits any user to run MATLAB on Matilda without special permission or license files. This page describes some of the ways in which MATLAB can be run on the cluster.

Initial Cluster Configuration

In order to use parallel work and batch modes it is necessary to import cluster configuration settings into your MATLAB profile the first time you run it.

Please use the following:

module load MATLAB
matlab -nodisplay
>>configCluster

Note that if you run the "configCluster" MATLAB command more than once, it will erase and regenerate your cluster profile information, so it is only necessary to do this once.

Interactively Scheduled

A scheduled interactive job can be run on one of the cluster nodes using something like the following:

srun -N 1 -c 1 -t 30:00 --pty /bin/bash --login

Once the session has started, simply load MATLAB and launch the application:

module load MATLAB
matlab -nodisplay

Please see our documentation for more information on scheduling interactive jobs.

Interactive Parallel

You can start an interactive MATLAB job and specify the total number of parallel workers to use during your run. This can be accomplished using something like the following:

module load MATLAB
matlab -nodisplay
>>c=parcluster;
>>p=c.parpool(40)

The command sequence above provides a handle to the cluster resource (parcluster), and then allocates 40 workers (parpool). These workers can run on a single node or across multiple nodes depending on the request and cluster scheduling. From here, you can execute MATLAB commands or scripts using a default set of cluster parameters.

To see the default cluster parameters use the following command:

>>c.AdditionalProperties

Various other parameters can be added or modified such as walltime, memory usage, GPUs, etc. For example:

>>c.AdditionalProperties.Walltime = '5:00:00';
>>c.AdditionalProperties.MemUsage = '4000';
>>c.AdditionalProperties.GpusPerNode = 1;

When finished, you can terminate this job using:

>>p.delete

Asynchronous Interactive Batch Jobs

It is also possible to submit asynchronous batch jobs to the cluster through the MATLAB interactive interface. The "batch" command will return a job object which is used to access the output of the submitted job. For example:

module load MATLAB
matlab -nodisplay
>>c=parcluster;
>>j=c.batch(@pwd, 1, {})

In the example above we obtain a handle to the cluster (parcluster) as we did in the previous example. The batch command launches the "@pwd" command (present working directory) with "1" input argument and no output parameters "{}".

Another example might involve running a MATLAB script which might look something like the following:

j=c.batch('sphere',1, {})

The command above submits a MATLAB job for the script "sphere" to the Matilda cluster.

To query the job state:

>>j.State

If the "state" is "finished" you can fetch the results:

>>j.fetchOutputs

After you're finished, make sure to delete the job results:

>>j.delete

To retrieve a list of currently running or completed jobs, call "parcluster" to retrieve the cluster object. This object stores an array of jobs that were run, are running, or are queued to run:

>>c=parcluster;
>>jobs=c.Jobs;


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