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I was specifically looking for a new way to use Matlab since I was using it on beagle but that went down. This is how to get matlab working with Aces
http://acesgrid.org/matlab.html
However, when I tried to log into geojr.acesgrid.org it didn't let me. I was able to use matlab without the X11 interface by following the first options:
qsub -I -l nodes=1
module add matlab
matlab
And I imagine that if you wanted to do something else interactively, that the qsub command above would also work.
Summary
In summary, this cluster might be good for a few specific tasks, but it's not good for long term storage, and it's geared towards the earth science crowd and modeling ocean circulation etc. It might have some functional capabilities that you could use (i.e. Matlab), but be careful not to leave data on their scratch because it will be deleted.