Running your matlab project via Singularity Containers

To run your matlab code with container via GNU octave (https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/index)

Getting Started

• Download octave.sif and magifsquare.m files placed in octave folder from here

• Import these files to your secure HPC environment (i.e. TSD, Bianca, Computerome, or similar).

• The main aim is running magicsquare.m file within container. For this aim two different alternatives have been proposed:

With GNU Octave

1. Run the container in shell mode by binding the path of the corresponding mfile (magicsquare.m in this case)

   singularity shell --no-home  --bind  path/of/mfile:/execute  octave.sif

2- Type octave and add the path where your code is. For instance, in our case the script (magicsquare.m) is placed in /execute. Hence all you need to do is adding this directory to octave as

addpath('/execute')  

Then you can readily run your matlab code to call your function such as: magicsquare(5)

And you can observe the corresponding output

ans =

17 24 1 8 15 23 5 7 14 16 4 6 13 20 22 10 12 19 21 3 11 18 25 2 9