ProActive Matlab/Scilab connector is part of the ProActive Parallel Scientific Toolbox that aims to accelerate application deployment and execution by distributing and parallelizing executions but also managing data transfers on Desktop machines, Clusters, Grids and Clouds.
You can build from the master branch the bundles that contain the binaries for Matlab and Scilab with gradle build
.
This will produce the following archives:
build/distributions/
├── matlab_scilab_connector-XXXXX-SNAPSHOT-matlab.zip
└── matlab_scilab_connector-XXXXX-SNAPSHOT-scilab.zip
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Follow the installation instructions for ProActive Scheduling.
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Unzip the desired distribution archive. The path to this folder will be referred as
CONNECTOR_HOME
in the following. -
Copy the contents of folder
CONNECTOR_HOME/lib/worker
intoSCHEDULING_HOME/addons/
folder.3a. If you use Matlab, edit the XML file
MatlabWorkerConfiguration.xml
inside theSCHEDULING_HOME/addons/
folder according to your local Matlab installation. TheMachineGroup
tag allows to specify a range of host for which the given configuration applies. Several configurations for several machine groups can be written in a singleMatlabWorkerConfiguration.xml
file, but this makes sense only if the scheduler is installed in a shared folder and every worker Node will use the same scheduler installation when starting and registering to the ResourceManager. When each machine uses a local scheduler worker installation, then the content ofCONNECTOR_HOME/lib/worker
folder must be copied into each addons folder of the scheduler worker installation, and theMatlabWorkerConfiguration.xml
file must be edited on each machine.3b. If you use Scilab, edit the
ScilabWorkerConfiguration.xml
file, and do the same by considering Scilab. -
Start a scheduler instance and note the url at which the scheduler is started, e.g.
pnp://localhost:64738
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Load the connector from your scientific environment and connect to the scheduler.
5a. If you use Matlab:
- Open Matlab and add path to the ProActive Matlab toolbox which is located on
CONNECTOR_HOME
, e.g.:
addpath('CONNECTOR_HOME')
- Connect to the scheduler by using the function PAconnect, e.g.:
PAconnect('pnp://localhost:64738')
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Enter your Scheduler login information, e.g.
demo/demo
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Do a small execution test:
r=PAsolve(@factorial, 1) val = PAwaitFor(r)
5b. If you use Scilab:
- build the ProActive Scilab toolbox located on
CONNECTOR_HOME
, e.g.:
cd CONNECTOR_HOME exec builder.sce
- load the toolbox into the Scilab environment (at each Scilab restart only the exec loader.sce command will be necessary)
exec loader.sce
- Connect to the scheduler by using the function PAconnect, e.g.:
PAconnect('pnp://localhost:64738')
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Enter your Scheduler login information, e.g.
demo/demo
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Do a small execution test:
r=PAsolve('cosh', 1) val = PAwaitFor(r)
- Open Matlab and add path to the ProActive Matlab toolbox which is located on
For further information, please refers to the Matlab toolbox and Scilab toolbox documentations available from within Matlab and Scilab.
If you have any problems or questions when using ProActive Matlab/Scilab Connector, feel free to contact us at [email protected]