For questions about accessing a kernel on a remote/different computer either directly from the front-end or as a slave kernel to a locally running master kernel.
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How do you use ssh-keys instead of a password to run a remote-kernel over ssh?
On all of the servers that I regularly interact with, I have ssh-keys setup for passwordless access via ssh. Yet, every time I attempt to start a remote-kernel over ssh, I get asked for a password ...
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Wolfram Light Weight Grid and parallel computing
I have attempted to set up and use the Wolfram Lightweight Grid Manager so I can do parallel computing from Mathematica using 2 remote processors on another machine on my local network.
My ...
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Connecting to and disconnecting from a continuously running kernel, on demand
I realized that there are lots of advantages to driving C/C++/FORTRAN code directly from Mathematica as LibraryLink functions (instead of running them from the command line or a shell script, as I ...
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Failed to connect remote Mathematica kernel using J/Link
I'm trying to connect to a remote Mathematica 8 kernel (on a Windows machine) using J/Link. On the client machine, I put the JLinkNativeLibrary.dll file in ...
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Are later versions of the Front-End compatible with older Kernels?
At my graduate school, all of the clusters still use version-6, and I only have version-7 and version-8 installed on my computer. I would like to use those machines remotely. Are either of the ...
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Connection to remote kernel can not be established - No specific error shown
I was trying to set up a remote kernel using Mathematica 8, a Debian server and a Mac OSX 10.8 client.
First I configured a VPN connection between server and client and went through all the basic ...
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Connecting to a remote machine
The simple answer is
ssh username@hostname
Enter your password and you are set. My problem is that I wish to connect to a computer in my university. There are ...
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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), ...
