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