I was working with a grad student this weekend to take advantage of compute resources effectively, and one of the questions that came up was how run Matlab non-interactively as well as persistently.
To run Matlab persistently (so it doesn’t die when you log out), “screen” can be used as described at this link.
To run Matlab non-interactively, I found a concise and useful page with instructions and explanations: http://people.scs.fsu.edu/~burkardt/m_src/matlab_batch/matlab_batch.html .
Today, the latest version of Ubuntu Linux – Hardy Heron (8.04) – was released. For folks at Thayer and Dartmouth, we have ISO images of the CDs available for download here:
http://ubuntu.thayer.dartmouth.edu/iso/hardy/
Be sure to check out our main Ubuntu page at:
http://ubuntu.thayer.dartmouth.edu/
Here, you’ll find instructions on how to set up your system to obtain updates from our local repositories.
You may also want to explore our new Linux @ Dartmouth Help Wiki. There’s not too much here yet, but we’ll be adding more linux support [snip...]
In between keeping all things computing running at Thayer, we always have several projects in the works. Here’s a quick overview of projects we’re currently working on or planning. In no particular order…
Email and collaboration tools
Dartmouth’s Council on Computing has constituted a task force to determine Dartmouth’s requirements for future email and collaboration tools. Thayer School’s Director of Computing Services is on the task force and seeks your thoughts on the subject.
Hard drive based back up server
We are a “belt and suspenders” computing staff. To [snip...]
Due to recent changes to Dartmouth wireless networking and limitations on one of our print servers, wireless printing for Mac and Linux is only available from Dartmouth Secure and Dartmouth Wireless Portal. You will be unable to print if connected to Kiewit Wireless.
All Windows PCs and Mac & Linux computers connected to the wired network are not affected.
Instructions for connecting to the new wireless networks can be found at our help pages.
If you run into trouble connecting, please e-mail [snip...]