CICS HPC Rain Cluster - Matlab GUI

If you need to access a gui for matlab, you can tunnel a X session over ssh from your linux machine to a compute node by doing the following:

On your workstation:

$ ssh -L 2120:compute-0-0:22 rain.umd.edu

Substitute compute-0-0 for an under utilized compute node.

Leave this window/terminal open

Open a second window on your workstation and issue the following:

$ ssh -X -p 2120 localhost

enter the password for your workstation and you will now have an X session to the compute node.

[rreese@compute-0-0 ~]$ matlab

The matlab gui opens.