_{Updated 2021-05-17}

Running Maple Interactively on the Cluster

Overview

• Running Maple is very similiar to any other interactive program. First, you must setup the vnc session, then open Maple from the terminal.
• Maple requires Matlab to be loaded, so you must load the matlab module and maple module in order to use maple.
• In a Maple worksheet/document, you must set the num of cpus to the num of cpus you requested

Set up Interactive (VNC) Session

• Please see the VNC guide for instructions on how to set up the Interactive VNC session

Start Maple on VNC

• Open terminal in the vnc window by clicking top left Applications > System Tools > scroll down to terminal
• all commands here on will be typed in terminal in VNC
• To see available versions of maple run

module avail maple

• However, if you are loading maple/18, you must load the matlab/r2016a module first

#Load Maple dependency (matlab) and load maple
module load matlab/r2016a
module load maple/18

• Start Maple: run xmaple

Setting CPU Number

• Once you have loaded a worksheet/ document, you must set the number of cpus to the number of cpus you requested when submitting the vnc job
• In Maple, use the command kernalopts(numcpus=x) where x is the number of cpus you requested.