MATLAB R2018b

[Predrag Punosevac]

Predrag Punosevac <predragp at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Autonians,
> 
> I just installed MATLAB R2018b to low1. Due to the size of installation
> files (12GB) things are moving slowly but I am on the role now and few
> computing nodes will be added within 30 minutes. I hope that all servers
> including the servers of Neill's group will have the new version by
> tomorrow morning. I will not spam you with additional e-mail.
> 
> Desktops as well as one virtual machine which uses MATLAB will have to
> wait until Wednesday.
> 
> Predrag

Quick update on the status of MATLAB. Few good news and some not so good
news. 

The MATLAB is now upgraded to the latest 2018b on the following CPU
nodes:

low1, lov1, lov2, lov3, lov4, lov5, ari, foxconn, athena

as well as on gpu1

as a bonus I also upgraded all the software but with exception of gpu1 I
didn't reboot machines so the kernel is still few months old. However
the userland is the latest.

I have encountered few problems. It looks like MATLAB installation
breaks NVidia driver and reboot is needed for MATLAB to see GPU devices.
That means that GPU nodes will have to be rebooted unless we have
serious reason to hold the process.

Also none of Neill's servers have enough HDD space for the latest
MATLAB (30 GB during the installation). I will have to take little break
from this before I can think of what can be done. 


Cheers,
Predrag

P.S. If you don't want me to reboot GPU servers please speak now!