Re: Octave on a cluster

[Ben Sapp]

Hi Seyed,  

I install octave on a cluster of IRIX machines.  What I do works with very 
few problems.  I mount /usr/local from an NFS disk.  Then I pick a machine 
on the network and build octave to install in /usr/local.  It almost always 
works on all the other machines.  

I have had one problem with this.  I installed enhanced shared libraries 
locally for BLAS/LAPACK on the machine I was building then I installed it in 
/usr/local and none of the other machines and then the other machines failed 
to run because they did not have the correct libraries.  The lesson here is 
that if the machines are significanty different then you may have more 
problems than I have had.  

Good Luck.  

On Wednesday 14 November 2001 03:13 pm, Syed Imran wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>     I am an administrator(student) for the Linux cluster at my
> University. We have Octave 2.0.14 stable running only on the server. I
> wanted to know how the install of octave should go across the machines.
> Is there any settings that will help octave perform better on a cluster?
>
> And should I just installl it on each machine or only the server like it
> is currently done?
>
> Regards,
> Imran
>
>
>
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