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MATLAB is a multi-paradigm numerical computing environment and programming language.

Getting Started

Run module avail to get a list of all software modules, or module spider to get a list of available versions of MATLAB.

module spider matlab       

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  matlab:
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    Description:
      A multi-paradigm numerical computing environment and programming language.

     Versions:
        matlab/r2016b
        matlab/r2017a

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Use module load to set up your environment, and then run matlab to start an interactive session.

module load matlab
matlab

If you have not configured a remote display MATLAB will start in text-mode, but the MATLAB desktop is also supported.

ssh -X sunetid@rice.stanford.edu
module load matlab
matlab &

Running MATLAB in Batch Mode

If you have prepared MATLAB code as a program (.m) file you can run it non-interactively.

matlab -nodesktop < program.m

You can use this method to submit a MATLAB job to a compute node, and you can even include MATLAB code in-line in an sbatch script.

#!/bin/bash

module load matlab
matlab -nodesktop << EOF
  % MATLAB code
EOF

Legacy FarmShare Information

Jupyter

MATLAB can also be run in a Jupyter notebook on FarmShare servers and used via a web browser.

The MATLAB Jupyter kernel is available as part of the prebuilt Jupyter environment accessible via the Jupyter installation guide.

Interactive Matlab

Info here: Matlab-interactive

Parallel Matlab

Info here: Matlab-parallel