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Matlab
Application to Access
Matlab is commercial software and the CSIR has a site license which allows for non-commercial use on the CHPC cluster.
If you are already a CHPC user:
Please send an email to helpdesk@chpc.ac.za to request access to run Matlab M-files on the cluster. Please mention your use case and project.
If you are not a CHPC user and would like to apply to be one:
The CHPC is free for students and researchers and you can apply for a normal user account on our User Portal as described in our Registrations guide.
Note that after you register as a user, you will only receive a cluster account and access to a cpu-hour allocation once a CHPC principal investigator (PI) has added you to their research programme.
If you are a student, then the PI would normally be your thesis supervisor. If they are not currently a CHPC PI, then they can register as a PI on our User Portal as described in the Registrations guide.
Environment Module
Matlab 2020a is available by loading the shell environment module
module load chpc/math/matlab/R2020a
Note that you must include this command in your job scripts too in order to load Matlab into your job script environment.
User Interface
Note that you will only have access to the text mode user interface on the cluster. Make sure your M-files can run without needing the Matlab GUI.
Additionally, your M-files need to be able to work non-interactively to run within a job script.
