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.

**IMPORTANT NOTE**

A common problem users encounter is a misunderstanding of the matlab search path. When you run a matlab function using the DCE, the function must be somewhere matlab can find it. Matlab adds YOURHOMEDIR/matlab to the search path by default (but not subdirectories under it). If you wish to add other directories and subdirectories to search, you can create a startup.m file in the ~/matlab directory and add paths to the file with:

addpath ~/SOMEWHERE/IMPORTANT

Or to include subdirectories under the path:

addpath(genpath('/SOMEWHERE/IMPORTANT/'))

The error that is returned from the submission if your function can't be found is:

Undefined function or method 'YOURFUNCTION' for input arguments of type 'double'