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Also see our About R and R Studio Server help page.

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rsync -avrPavrW ~/foo/ \
  abattenh@gsafstor01.ccbb.utexas.edu:/stor/work/GSAF/foo/

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• the <user>portion is your BRCF account name (abattenh above)
• the <storage_server> portion is the full host name of your BRCF storage server (gsafstor01.ccbb.utexas.edu above)
  • see this table to identify your POD's storage server: Available PODs
• the <group> portion matches your Linux group name on your POD (GSAF above)
  
  • type groups when logged into one of your POD compute servers to list your group(s)
• the -avrW options say to sync the entire directory tree, and to handle large files efficiently.

Finally, it is important that large files not be transferred to your POD Home directory, as that directory has a 100 GB quota. See Home directory quotas for more information.

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From your X11-enabled terminal, use ssh -Y to connect to the POD compute server (the -Y enables forwarding of the X11 commands to the X-terminal). Once logged in, type matlab. This will (slowly) open a graphical window to run matlab in.

Here's how to create a script in matlab.

• In the "Command Window" in the middle of the matlab window, type "1+1" and hit return, it should say "2".
• Click the "New Script" button at the upper left (or the "New" Button, then select "Script" if you don't see "New Script").
  
  • This will open an editing window for a script. 
    
• Type "1+1" in the window, then click "Save" from the upper menu. 
  
  • Name it anything with a ".m" extension (such as untitled.m, the default). 
    
• You can then use then "Open" menu, or the "Current Folder" pain, to open that file in the future.
• Once open in the Editor, you can use the "Run" command from the Editor menu to run it.
• Exit matlab (using either the "exit" or "quit" command)
  

To open matlab without the graphical interface, type the not-so-short or intuitive command: matlab -nodisplay -nosplash. This should give an interactive command prompt. To exit, type quit or exit. Other sometimes-useful options for the non-GUI matlab include -nojvm (might speed things up a bit) and -wait (wait until your jobs finish before exiting).

To run the "script" we created above (called untitled.m in your home directory) and exit, you can do something like:

matlab -nodisplay -nosplash -r "run('~/untitled.m');quit"

To add some error checking, you can use:

matlab -nodisplay -nosplash -r "try, run('~/untitled.m'), catch, exit, end, exit"

Another simple example script could be created and executed from the command line as shown below. (It should tell you the answer is "7.3529".)

echo "5^3/(2^4+1)" > ~/untitled2.m
matlab -nodisplay -nosplash -nojvm -r "run('~/untitled2.m');quit"

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