Since the second semester of 2014, MATLAB has become available in the HPC cluster on campus, known as Rhasatsha.
The Engineering Faculty Board has kindly agreed to sponsor the purchase of a MATLAB Distributed Compute Server (MDCS) license for 16 MATLAB workers (version R2014a). This facility allows computational jobs, written in MATLAB, to be run in the HPC cluster in a manner of ways. Those of you familiar with MATLAB will find the facility quite friendly.
If you have MATLAB installed on your PC or laptop, you will require also the Parallel Compute Toolbox, in order to access the MDCS on Rhasatsha from your MATLAB client session on your PC or laptop. Interactive, as well as non-interactive jobs are supported.
In particular, when you have a highly parallel application, MDCS provides support for up to 16 concurrent threads to run, speeding up execution. The MDCS configuration has been prepared by Dr J P Barnard of Process Engineering, and Mr Charl Moller of IT.
You may find more information here:
Rhasatsha, http://hpc1.sun.ac.za/
Yearly registration to use Rhasatsha, https://www0.sun.ac.za/hpc/index.php?title=HOWTO_register
Cost to use Rhasatsha, R1200 per year.
Cost to use MDCS is calculated pro-rata on total license renewal cost. Please, contact Dr Barnard.
MDCS, http://www.mathworks.com/products/distriben/
Dr J P Barnard, jbarnard@sun.ac.za
Mr C Moller, cwmoller@sun.ac.za
