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star tjobmanager
Purpose Start job manager process
Syntax startjobmanager
startjobmanager -flags
Description startjobmanager starts a job manager process and the associated
job m anager lookup process under the mdce service, which maintains
them after that. The job manager handles the storage of jobs and the
distribution of tasks contained in jobs to MATLAB w orkers that are
registered with it. The mdce service must already be running on the
specified computer.
startjobmanager -flags accepts the following input flags. M ultiple
flags can be used together on the same command.
Flag
Operation
-name <job_mana ger _name>
Specifies the name of the job
manager. This identifies the job
manager to MATLAB worker
sessions and MATLAB clients.
The default is the value of the
DEFAULT_JOB_MANAGER_NAME
parameter in the mdce_de f file.
-remotehost <ho stn ame>
Specifies the name of the host
where you want to start the job
manager and the job manager
lookup process. If omitted, they
are started on the local host.
-clean
Deletes all checkpoint
information stored on disk
from previous instances of this
job manager before starting. This
will clean the job manager so that
it will initialize with no jobs or
tasks.
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