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Open OnDemand Interactive Apps - MATLAB

How to request and use a dedicated MATLAB session on the FMRIB cluster

The Open OnDemand Interactive Apps/MATLAB option allows you to start an interactive session housing only MATLAB. Whilst you can of course use MATLAB via the Remote Desktop app, this option uses less server resources, and can be considered to be similar to 'ssh -Y' but with session persistence.

The MATLAB app configuration form required the following information:

  • Session type/Session duration/GPU and memory/cores (when Advanced selected)- see Interactive Desktop for description of options.
  • MATLAB version - 'default' will choose the newest version installed, or you can choose a specific version.
  • Extra modules script - this allows you to specify the full path to a text file that will load environment modules before starting MATLAB.

Launching a MATLAB session

Click Launch to submit your job to the queue.

If you receive a red error box mentioning QOS, then you have requested a second MATLAB session - we do not allow this for fair-share reasons.

Error box you will see at the top of the page if you already have a session running

This will take you to the My Interactive Sessions page when you can launch the VNC session - see the Interactive Remote Desktop instructions for details on using the VNC viewer.