Options, methods or issues launching a Kernel instance
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Launching remote kernels - will it help RAM needs?
Given the exasperating RAM needs of my Mathematica program, I contemplated launching remote kernels to run my Mathematica script. This is a two part question:
Part 1
If I launch a remote kernel(s), ...
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Mathematica does not launch [closed]
Since this morning I'm not able to launch Mathematica (vs. 8.0.4) on my Mac (OS 10.8.3). Every time I click on the icon Mathematica opens the "Messages" box without any messages. After some seconds my ...
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Launching remote slave kernels on HPC causes slow down
I had a post earlier regarding how I can run Mathematica at a HPC cluster (running PBSpro) by having a single MathKernel launch ...
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Slow Mathematica startup
since Mathematica V8 the startup time is very long and somehow the complete GUI seems to freeze at the startup for approximately one minute. This happens on both of my computers, where one is running ...
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mathematica startup time
I have Mathematica 7 and 8 installed on my laptop.
Mathematica 7 starts quite fast, but Mathematica 8 is extremely slow to start.
In the Option Inspector I canceled the "welcome screen" option at ...
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Can one launch a Player Pro kernel independently of the front end
This question follows on from my earlier one, Seeking strategies to deploy a function securely without a front end.
As it pursues a different track to solve the same problem it seemed distinct enough ...
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What's the kernel launch command syntax?
I want to configure a remote kernel, but the box it'll run on doesn't have a fixed hostname or IP address. I can however get its IP address by running a shell script. (For the moment I'm only worrying ...
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Seeking strategies to deploy a function securely without a front end
Background
I have a fuction, which calculates an analytic solution to a multi-dimentional geometry problem.
The function takes a list of real numbers (typically less than a dozen) and outputs a ...
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How often does Mathematica contact its license server?
I know that Mathematica checks the validity of its license every time the program is launched.
Say, however, that I have a valid license (which I do) and that I am running some code which takes a ...
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Simple question about startup options
This is probably fairly straightforward, but I wasn't able to find it right away. I'd like for Mathematica to display on startup the latest notebook I was working on, and nothing else. No additional ...
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Using LaunchKernels to launch kernels with lower priorities
On windows the kernels launched with LaunchKernels are starred with "Below Normal" priority.
Is there a way to start them with even lower priority (eg. "Idle")?
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Difference between sub MathKernel and MathKernel
When I try to run Mathematica processes in parallel on a Linux based server, I see that my server allows 7 MathKernels and 28 sub MathKernels. I was wondering what the difference is and how I can take ...
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How to automatically load package in Player Pro by making backup files of init.m?
I dont know whether I am asking the right question or not but I am curious to know whether we can automatically load the package in ...
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Launch a specific notebook automatically when Mathematica starts
I run Mathematica on an iMac running OS X 10.6.8.
I have set the OS's "Launch Items" to include Mathematica so that the application opens when the computer boots.
Now I want to go further and ...
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Table function with Part[] call misbehaving, but only after initial startup of Mathematica
I am getting errors like:
Part::partd:
Part specification standardBasis[[1]] is longer than depth of object.
with the following Manipulate expression:
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