MATLAB
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MATLAB is a software package for performing numerical computation.

Availability
^^^^^^^^^^^^
MATLAB is available for Windows (via the Software Hub) and Linux.

On the departmental Linux environment, MATLAB is available from the *Education* section of the desktop *Application* menu. It can also be launched from the terminal by loading the appropriate module:

.. code:: bash

   module load matlab

Departmental cluster usage
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
To use MATLAB on the departmental cluster, you must run it without the GUI from your script:

.. code:: bash

   matlab -nodisplay  -nosplash -nodesktop -r "myscript, quit"

If you wish to use the parallel toolbox, specify a value for the SLURM parameter ``--cpus-per-task`` greater than 1.