Using Mathematica on Triton

Load Mathematica

Mathematica is loaded through a module:

module load mathematica

See available versions with module avail mathematica.

You can test by running in text-based mode:

$ wolfram

With graphical user interface

To launch the graphical user interface (GUI), login to triton.aalto.fi with -X, i.e. X11 forwarding enabled.

ssh -X triton.aalto.fi

If you need to run computationally-intensive things with the GUI, use sinteractive to get an interactive shell on a node:

sinteractive --mem=10G --time=1:00

Either way, you start the GUI with mathematica:

$ mathematica &

Running batch scripts

Create a script file, say script.m. You can run this script and store the outputs in output.txt using:

math -noprompt -run '<<script.m' > output.txt

To put this in a batch script, simply look at the serial jobs tutorial. Here is one such example:

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --mem=5G
#SBATCH --time=2:00

module load mathematica
math -noprompt -run '<<script.m'

Common problems

Activation If you need to activate Mathematica when you first run it, we recommend that you launch it in GUI mode first, choose ‘Other ways to activate’” then “Connect to a network license server”, and paste lic-mathematica.aalto.fi. It should be automatically activated, though, if not file an issue and link this page.

Admin notes

When installing new versions, put !lic-mathematica.aalto.fi into Configuration/Licensing/mathpass in the base directory