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# From Octave prompt, generate authentication files, set user name to # 'test'. When prompted for a password, press <enter>. parallel_generate_srp_data ('test') # From Octave prompt, get location of the generated files. authpath = fullfile (a = pkg ("prefix"), "parallel-srp-data") Copy server files to servers, authpath is assumed to be "/home/test/octave/parallel-srp-data/", the same directory is assumed to exist on the servers. From the system shell, do e.g.: scp -r /home/test/octave/parallel-srp-data/server server1:/home/test/octave/parallel-srp-data/ scp -r /home/test/octave/parallel-srp-data/server server2:/home/test/octave/parallel-srp-data/ Start server at remote machines. From the system shell, do e.g.: ssh server1 'octave --eval "pserver"' ssh server2 'octave --eval "pserver"' # From Octave prompt, connect the cluster. conns = pconnect ({"server1", "server2"}) # And perform some parallel execution. Single function calls take 1 # second each. results = netcellfun (conns, (x) {x, pause(1)}{:}, num2cell (1:30)) # Close network. sclose (conns)