Installation guide

5 Configuring Parallel Computing Products for a Generic Schedule r
Configure Generic Scheduler on Windows Cluster
If your cluster is already set up to use m piexec a nd smpd, you can u se
Parallel Computing Toolbox™ software with your existing configurati on
if you are using a compatible MP I im pl e mentation library ( as d efined in
matlabroot\toolb ox\d istcomp\mpi\mpiLibConf. m). However, if you do not
have mpiexec on your cluster and you want to use it, you can use the mpiexec
software shipped with the parallel computing products.
For further information about mpiexecandsmpd,seetheMPICH2homepage
at http://www .m cs.anl.go v/ research/projects/mpich2/. For user’s guides and
installation instructions on that page, select Documentation > User Docs.
In the following instructions ,
matlabroot refers to the MATLAB installation
location.
To use mpiexec to distribute a job, the smpd service must be running on all
nodes that will be used for running MATLAB workers.
Note The smpd executable does not support running from a mapped drive.
Use either a local installation, or the full UNC pathname to the executable.
Microsoft Windows Vista does not support the
smpd executable on network
share installations, so with Vista the installation must be local.
Choose one of the following configurations:
In this section...
“Without Delegation” on p age 5-4
“Using Passwordless Delegation” on page 5-6
Without Delegation
1 Log in as a user with administrator privileges.
2 Start smpd by typing in a DOS command window one of the following,
as appropriate:
5-4
For help, contact the MathWorks install support team at
508-647-7000 or http://www.mathworks.com/support/contact_us