<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Justin Riley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jtriley@mit.edu">jtriley@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi Abhijit,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> This is what i want to do:<br>
> Setup matlab preferably with windows but linux is fine as well.<br>
> (amazon EC2 provides mostly windows 2003/08 server editions which are<br>
> pain to use..)<br>
<br>
</div>Do you mean parallel matlab or just individual matlab installations on<br>
each machine? I believe the setup and licensing is different in each<br>
case but I could be wrong. I haven't used matlab in years...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the reply Justin. Sorry didn't update on the mailing list. I ended up configuring Matlab for EC2 with</div>
<div>windows and linux the way we wanted in the lab. You are right, licensing is different for individual and parellel.</div><div>For parallel processing, best if people go with parallel processing toolbox. It has an inbuilt queueing system which</div>
<div>takes care of job submission across multiple nodes. You have to get a separate license apart from existing</div><div>Matlab. Windows Server is a bit pain to configure, but after shooting yourself few times and feeling sorry for yourself</div>
<div>you can get it working. Though tons of stupid questions from windows you have to answer!!!</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
> How does licensing for matlab work on ec2? will jsut a plain install<br>
> on a machine and then creating ami and using those ami work with linux<br>
> + matlab and windows + matlab?<br>
<br>
</div>Again I'm not an expert on matlab or its licensing but I imagine you<br>
will still need to have a valid license for each EC2 instance. In theory<br>
you should be able to create your own matlab AMI and as long as you<br>
configure each instance you launch with a valid license after they come<br>
up (maybe through a StarCluster plugin?) it should work. I'd recommend<br>
reading the following whitepaper for the licensing requirements and<br>
installation details:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.mathworks.com/programs/techkits/ec2_paper.html" target="_blank">http://www.mathworks.com/programs/techkits/ec2_paper.html</a><br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Any suggestions for tools to do intereaction with matlab nodes ?<br>
<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am using VNC, but I am assuming NeatX might be a better solution..!! Unfortunately numpy/scipy wouldn't </div><div>work because many people are Matlab-Windows Only. Liecensing works the way you mentioned and each instance needs separate license,</div>
<div>which gets authenticated with MIT network so no of matlab nodes you can boot is restrcited by number of licenses you have in your insitution..!!!</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">
</div>Well if you prefer using NumPy/Python you can give these a try (I<br>
haven't used them personally):<br>
<br>
1. <a href="http://mlabwrap.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://mlabwrap.sourceforge.net/</a><br>
<br>
2. <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pymatlab" target="_blank">http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pymatlab</a><br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Does starcluster have windows support? ( i didnt find it.. I have been<br>
> using it with ubuntu for 6 months now)<br></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"><br>
</div>Not at this time. </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br>
~Justin<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div>Abhijit Bendale</div><div><br></div><br>