GNU Octave

Overview

Mathematics oriented scientific programming language largely compatibile with Matlab

Availability

Cluster	Module/Version
BOSE	octave/7.3.0
BGSC	Not Available

Note: You can simply use module load octave to activate the most recently installed version of this software.

Arguments / Options

This is a list of arguments for the octave command that we wanted to highlight. Use man octave or this online man page for a full list.

Option	Description
--help	Provides help page for GNU Octave

Sample Slurm Script

submit.sh

#!/bin/bash
# -- SLURM SETTINGS -- #
# [..] other settings here [..]

# The following settings are for the overall request to Slurm
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=32     # How many CPU cores do you want to request
#SBATCH --nodes=1                # How many nodes do you want to request

# -- SCRIPT COMMANDS -- #

# Load the needed modules
module load octave    # Load GNU Octave
octave my-program.m

Real Example

Has your research group used GNU Octave in a project? Contact the HPC Team and we'd be glad to feature your work.

Citation

Please include the following citation in your papers to support continued development of GNU Octave. Further details are available when you use the command citation() in Octave, including instructions on how to cite individual packages.

John W. Eaton, David Bateman, Søren Hauberg, Rik Wehbring (2022). GNU Octave version 7.3.0 manual: a high-level interactive language for numerical computations.
URL https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v7.3.0/