[Rocks-Discuss] Installing matlab on all the nodes

[Giacomo Carella]

Dear All,
I'd like to know if someone has already faced the problem of installing matlab on all the rocks nodes.
I've just installed rocks cluster 5.3.
Is it possible to create a roll in your view?
Can anyone help.
Thanks
Giacomo

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[Matthias Gierth]

Hi,

we just installed Matlab on the head-node in the /share/apps directory.

It works fine for us, because each node can access this path.

[Giacomo Carella]

Thanks Matthias.
How do you deal with licenses? Every node has its own?
Thanks again
Giacomo

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[Matthias Gierth]

we us an external license server, so the only entry in license.dat is
the USE SERVER <SERVER> <PORT>

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[Scott L. Hamilton]

I have a working Matlab Roll that installs Matlab on each node with a
central license server. I have been trying to get permission to release
the roll from the folks at Matlab, but they are not too keen on Matlab
being redistributed by an open source mechanism. Here is how I did it.

I installed Matlab on my head node in /opt/Matlab.
I created several tarballs (one for each directory under /opt/Matlab)
because I found that a single rpm was too large and failed to install.
I created a Makefile for each tarball that created an rpm by extracting
the tarball to the BUILD_DIR/opt/Matlab directory, and split Matlab into
about 6 smaller RPMS using this method.
The roll adds /opt/Matlab/license.dat to the 411 service so you just
have to put the license server information in on the head node and it
gets copied to the other nodes.

I have found that RPMS larger than 600Mb tend to cause odd failures
during the install process, so try and keep the rpms smaller than that
for the install.

If I ever get permission I'll distribute the roll through
rocks.stanford.edu.

Scott

[Steve Jones]

> we just installed Matlab on the head-node in the /share/apps
> directory.
>
> It works fine for us, because each node can access this path.

We do the same, also run Matlab Distributed Computing Engine with Torque for parallel matlab jobs and runs fine through the shared installation method.

Steve

[Renate Mittelmann]

we use the distributed matlab engine for many years, works perfect.

Renate

Renate Mittelmann
Arizona State University
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Tempe, AZ 85287-1804
ren...@asu.edu http://plato.asu.edu/renate/
(480)965-0096 fax:(480)965-0461

[Giacomo Carella]

Thanks everybody. Your help is really appreciated. I'll go with the installation in /share/apps.
Thanks again
Giacomo

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> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:04:37 -0700
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[Mike Hanby]

We are doing the same under /share/apps

The client license hosted by external license servers, and the DCS licenses are hosted by the head node. In our case, DCS is integrated with Grid Engine.

Mike