Hi Rob,

showstart and showbf should work now. It seems that there are some
minor issues with a daemon. We have a temporary workaround.

Thanks again for reporting your various issues.

My other colleague should be able to answer your question on Matlab.

Robin


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Rob Skoumal <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello (again),
>
> I'm running into problems when trying to open a pool of MATLAB sessions to
> run programs in parallel.
>
> For example, when I run 'matlabpool open 2', I receive the error:
> Starting matlabpool using the 'local' configuration ... stopped.
>
> ??? Error using ==> matlabpool at 127
> The interactive parallel job finished without any messages.
>
>
> Prior to the upgrade, I was able to open a pool <= 8. The maximum pool size
> appears to now be 4, and I just wanted to confirm this change was
> intentional.
>
>
> Also, the commands 'showstart' and 'showbf' listed on pg. 5 of the Working
> with batch jobs pdf do not seem to work.
>
> Thank you,
> Rob Skoumal