MATLAB

MATLAB is a general purpose research computing application.

We have MATLAB installed on the following standalone servers:

marvin.ibest.uidaho.edu
ford.ibest.uidaho.edu
zaphod.ibest.uidaho.edu
watson.ibest.uidaho.edu
crick.ibest.uidaho.edu
tesla.ibest.uidaho.edu

MATLAB is limited to a single user per server, please do not leave MATLAB sessions open but not computing as this prevents other users from starting MATLAB.

Load the matlab module to access matlab

benji@watson ~ # module load matlab
benji@watson ~ # matlab
MATLAB is selecting SOFTWARE OPENGL rendering.

                                                              < M A T L A B (R) >
                                                    Copyright 1984-2020 The MathWorks, Inc.
                                                R2020a Update 2 (9.8.0.1380330) 64-bit (glnxa64)
                                                                  May 5, 2020


To get started, type doc.
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Toolboxes

All the MATLAB installs have the ‘Symbolic Math Toolbox’ installed, this table shows where other Toolboxes are installed:

server	Curve Fitting	Image Processing	Mapping	Parallel Computing	Statistics and Machine Learning	Cores	RAM (GB)
marvin						40	192
trillian		Y				40	192
ford						40	192
zaphod						40	192
watson						48	256
crick						48	256
tesla	Y		Y	Y	Y	72	128
n051		Y				40	256
n052						40	256
n102			Y	Y	Y	32	128
n103				Y	Y	32	128
n108					Y	16	92
n109						16	92

Cluster

There are six cluster nodes with MATLAB installed (listed above), use the feature flag ‘matlab’ to request a node with MATLAB installed, for example:

sbatch -C "matlab" myscript.slurm

If you need a specific toolbox, you’ll need to request the appropriate node.

sbatch --nodelist=n051 myscript.slurm

MATLAB installations are limited to one user per server at a time, so it is best to request all the processors or all the RAM of your target node to ensure that there is no contention for the MATLAB software.