Colloquium 2023 Before and after submitting Octave/Matlab jobs on the clusters

Although the vast majority of production work is done by running batch jobs on the clusters, typical research projects also require interactive work to be done with the code and data both before and after running the computation jobs. This presentation explores ways of working interactively using Octave/Matlab with the Alliance compute clusters. The interactive work frequently includes tasks like code profiling, job parameter estimation, data handling, and visualization. Although the example procedures in this presentation use Octave/Matlab, many of the strategies are generalizable across software packages.