Introduction

The Matlab Distributed Computing Engine (DCE) allows users to submit two types of jobs: simple distributed (i.e., multiple single cpu jobs) and complex parallel (i.e., mpi or matlab parallel). For a full reference, please visit Mathworks.

HPC Matlab Resources

There is a 16-seat license for the DCE, so a Matlab user can run up to 16 tasks (parallel or simple) if available. Each headnode has a 2-seat license for the interactive Matlab client that is used to submit jobs to the DCE using the shared filesystem. The one caveat is that the jobs must be submitted from the same Matlab version running on the cluster, r2008a. The default version when you login is r2008a, but if you've been using Matlab previously, please ensure your path points to the current version, not r2007b.