CHPC administers a joint license with College of Mines and Earth Sciences (CMES) which includes 56 Matlab seats and toolboxes listed in FAQ 5 here, which are purchased under the campus Total Academic Headcount (TAH) license. As of R2019a, as a part of the campus TAH license, we also have an unlimited license of the Matlab Parallel Server which allows one to run in parallel on multiple nodes. The Linux version of Matlab for CHPC and CMES Linux desktops and clusters is installed in /uufs/chpc.utah.edu/sys/installdir/matlab/std. We also install Matlab on CHPC and CMES Windows and Mac machines on demand.

Researchers with desktop admin rights affiliated with CHPC or CMES can contact helpdesk@chpc.utah.edu for information how to install Matlab. Other CHPC users who need Matlab on their desktops or laptops should purchase Matlab license from OSL.

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Optimizing Matlab code before moving to CHPC

Matlab All Toolboxes Crack Matlab R2018b Full Crack Plus License Key Matlab R2018b Crack (Math laboratory) is an all in one application for creating and designing high-level programs. Further with this user can integrate many different programming paradigms. Instrument Control Toolbox™ supports the MODBUS interface over TCP/IP or Serial RTU. You can use it to communicate with MODBUS servers, such as controlling a PLC, communicating with a temperature controller, controlling a stepper motor, sending data to a DSP, reading bulk memory from a PAC controller, or monitoring temperature and humidity on a MODBUS probe.

Before moving one's Matlab code to CHPC machines, we highly recommend to examine the code and optimize it for performance, following these steps:

Go over and implement Mathworks' recommended techniques to improve performance. In particular, preallocation and vectorization can have a large impact on performance.
Use the Profiler to measure where the program spends most of the time and think if that portion of the code can be modified to be faster.

Once you do that chances are that you may not even need to use CHPC!

Matlab on Linux machines

Matlab, including many toolboxes and DCS is installed on all clusters and Linux desktops in /uufs/chpc.utah.edu/sys/installdir/matlab. There are different versions of Matlab available, which can be accessed by loading the appropriate version module. If the module version is not specified, the default version will be loaded.

To run Matlab, first open a terminal window and load the Matlab module to set up it in your environment:
module load matlab

Strategies for starting Matlab differ depending on which way one wants to run it, and are described below.

Single instance Matlab on a desktop, interactive node or a single compute node

Although Matlab will run on the interactive nodes, please, take note that we don't allow running executables longer than ca. 15 minutes on the interactive nodes due to the load they put on them and inconvenience to other users. For that reason, we recommend to run Matlab through interactive Slurm session, or on the Frisco interactive nodes. To start Matlab on an interactive node call the matlab command from the terminal after loading the Matlab module. In order to use the GUI, make sure you have accessed the machine through FastX.

Note that running a single Matlab in a job, even if just on one node, may not efficiently utilize the multi-core node. Matlab uses internal multi-threading by default, running as many threads as there are available cores on the node, but, not all internal Matlab functions are multi-threaded. From our experience some Matlab routines thread quite well, while some not much and some are not threaded at all.

This Mathworks document has some information on multi-threading. To evaluate speedup from internal multi-threading, use the maxNumCompThreads function as described here. One can also run the top command to monitor how much CPU usage Matlab uses, we want to see the MATLAB process CPU utilization to be up to 100% times number of CPU cores on the node (e.g. on an 8 core node, 800%).

Running Matlab in an interactive cluster job

To run one Matlab instance in a cluster job, follow these steps:

Start interactive Slurm session, with X forwarding e.g.:

In order to start the interactive job quickly, we recommend using the notchpeak-shared-short partition and account, which is optimized for faster job startup.

Load Matlab environment and run Matlab

Running Matlab in a SLURM script

Once the Matlab program is tested in the interactive job session, we recommend to set it up to run non-interactively through Slurm scripts. The advantage of this approach is that it can run on any CHPC cluster in a non-attended fashion, so, one can submit many different calculations which will be processed as the systems resources allow.

Our preferred way is to create a wrapper Matlab script to run the program of choice and run this wrapper right after Matlab launch via the -r Matlab start option. The best way to implement this is to create a launch script that has the following three lines:

This script adds to Matlab path the path to the program we want to run, run the program and then exit Matlab. The exit is important since if we don't exit, the Matlab will hang till the job runs out of walltime. See file run_matlab.m for an example of the wrapper Matlab script.
Once the script is in place, in your Slurm script file, cd to the directory with your data files, and run Matlab as:
matlab -nodisplay -r my_launch_script -logfile my_log.out

Here we are telling Matlab to start without the GUI (as we don't need it in the batch session), start the launch script my_launch_script.m and log the Matlab output to my_log.out. See file run_matlab.slr for an example of a Slurm script that launches Matlab with the run_matlab.m script.

Creating a standalone executable from Matlab programs

Alternatively, consider compiling the Matlab programs using the Matlab Compiler and run them as a standalone executable. In this case, you don't call Matlab in the Slurm script; call the compiled executable itself (that is, just replace the matlab -r .... line with the name of the compiled executable). The advantage of this approach is calling a single executable instead of the whole Matlab environment. The disadvantage is less flexibility in editing the Matlab source between the run since that requires recompilation of the executable. The compilation itself is an extra step which can be complicated if the Matlab program is large.

Compiling Matlab program is usually fairly simple. First make sure that all your Matlab programs are functions, not scripts. Function is a code that starts with function statement. Suppose we have functions main.m, f1.m and f2.m. main.m is the main function. To compile these three into an executable, do:
mcc -m main f1 f2. This will produce executable named main. There are some limitations in the compilation. For this and other details, consult the Matlab Compiler help page.

Note that if you are running simulatneously more than one Matlab compiled executables, set the MCR_CACHE_ROOT environment variable to a unique location for each run. This variable specifies the Matlab Runtime cache location. By default it is ~/.mcrCache, which is shared by all the runs, and may lead to the cache corruption. When running multiple SLURM jobs, set MCR_CACHE_ROOT=/scratch/local/$SLURM_JOB_ID.

Performance considerations

When running a single instance of Matlab, the parallelization is limited only to the threads internal to Matlab. From our experience some Matlab routines thread quite well, whil