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Documentation for the N8CIR Bede Tier 2 HPC faciltiy
https://bede-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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Matlab alternatives #56

Closed loveshack closed 3 years ago

loveshack commented 3 years ago

There's an FAQ about the absence of Matlab. If people really want that sort of thing, GNU Octave and Scilab can be built on ppc64le. You speed up large-scale linear algebra (and possibly FFTs) by preloading ESSL or making a compatible shim, as with R. However, performance is disappointing and I didn't get information on improving it. There's also MPI support, at least for Octave.

Fehings commented 3 years ago

Including a comment in the Matlab FAQ that it is possible to install Octave on Bede.

loveshack commented 3 years ago

If it is wanted, the EPEL8 rpm should probably be installed. That's reasonably recent, unlike EPEL7.