[Beowulf] Re: SGE + policy

[Andrew Piskorski]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:01:09PM -0700, beowulf-request at beowulf.org wrote:

> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 10:19:00 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Robert G. Brown" <rgb at phy.duke.edu>

> Primary tasks:  matlab and stata jobs, run either interactively/remote
> or (more likely) in batch mode.  Jobs include both "short" jobs that

> Constraint:  matlab requires a license managed by a license manager.

Have they considered running Octave rather than Matlab?  Depending on
what special-purpose Matlab add-on modules they're using, that might
or might not be practical, but if it is, using Octave should reduce
their cluster and license hassles.  (I've never used either of the two
dialects myself though, so have them ask someone who really knows...)

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