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.

See also

Various other references also apply here once you load the module and adapt them to Slurm:

Admin notes

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