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[user@node166 ~]$ module load profile/eng autoload matlab/r2017a

Configuration

Configure MATLAB to submit jobs will by default to the cluster rather than submit to the local node or local machine.

Cluster Configuration

Start MATLAB, without desktop.

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 Configure MATLAB to run parallel jobs on your cluster by calling configCluster.  For each cluster, configCluster only needs to be called once per version of MATLAB, and once per user. 

>> configCluster

Jobs will now default to the cluster rather than submit to the local machine. 

Local Configuration

Configuring Jobs

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