cluster computing

Princeton University has purchased licenses for MATLAB as well as a substantial number of MATLAB Toolboxes. This software can be used on CS public use servers (cycles), including the ionic cluster, as well as individual users' machines. Installation instructions and detailed licensing information can be found on OIT's Princeton Software MATLAB page.

Overview

The department provides a Beowulf cluster, known as ionic, for users who need a high performance computing (HPC) cluster environment in order to perform their work.

The primary way of using the cluster is to submit batch jobs and a description of the resource requirements (CPU, RAM, run time) to the scheduler.  When resources are available, the job will run.