[edit] Mathematica on the ITS HPC Cluster

Mathematica is a fully integrated technical computing system that combines fast, high-precision numerical and symbolic computation with data visualization and programming capabilities. Version 6.0 is currently available on the Case HPC cluster. Usage requires that you be authorized to use Mathematica.

To run Mathematica, load the appropriate environment variables using the command

  module load mathematica

These changes to the environment remain in effect until logout or the issuance of the command

  module unload mathematica

To start a Mathematica kernel from a shell on the cluster's master node (hpcc-master.case.edu), type

   math

for the command-line interface.

For information on the command-line interface to the Mathematica kernel, type

   man math

To start an X Windows Mathematica session using WinaXe (available from the Software Center) on a Windows PC, you need to have the necessary fonts loaded - NEED INFORMATION ON THIS!. Assuming you have the fonts, do the following:

   start an Xsession on your PC using WinaXe
   establish an ssh session on the master node from your PC using PuTTY or other ssh client
   start an xterm on the master node using the command
       xterm -display NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN:0.0 &
   where NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN is the IP address of your Windows PC
   type the command "mathematica"

Users running Windows may have more success installing one of the free X Servers Xmingand Cygwin/X. See Mathematica Font Setup for installation instructions.

For information on the X Windows interface to the Mathematica kernel. Type

   man mathematica

For information on C compiler invocation that provides access to Mathematica libraries, type

   man mcc

For more information on Mathematica:

• Online documentation is available through the Help menu within the Mathematica notebook front end
• The Mathematica Book, 5th Edition (Wolfram Media, Inc., 2003) by Stephen Wolfram
• The Mathematica Book is available online
• Additional Mathematica documentation is available online
• Information on the Parallel Computing Toolkit is available online
• Getting Started with Mathematica (Wolfram Research, Inc., 2004)
• The Wolfram web site

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