Mathematica: Mathematica symbolic and computational mathematics package.

Overview of package

Package:	Mathematica
Description:	Mathematica symbolic and computational mathematics package.
For more information:	http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/
Categories:	SoftwareDevelopment NumericalMethods
License:	Proprietary (Multi-department funded)

General Usage

Mathematica is a computational software program used in many scientific, engineering, mathematical and computing fields, based on symbolic

This module will add the commands math and mathematica to your PATH. Run math for the command line interface, and run mathematica for the GUI interface.

Mathematica is proprietarily licensed software. It is made available to UMD users through a campus license paid for with funding from various colleges.

Available versions by cluster

This section lists the available versions of the package Mathematicaon the UMD HPC clusters.

Versions available on the Zaratan cluster

Version	Module tags	CPU(s) optimized for	GPU ready?
12.3.0	12.3.0	x86_64	Yes

Running Mathematica with the GUI on UMd HPC systems

The recommended way to run Mathematica with the GUI is to use the OnDemand portal. From within the OnDemand portal, launch an interactive desktop. When that job starts up, you will be presented with an interactive desktop session in your web browser, Open a terminal/command line window, and issue the commands

module load mathematica
mathematica

The mathematica GUI should open shortly. As this interactive desktop session is running on a compute node, you are permitted to start computationally intensive calculations in this desktop.

Running Mathematica from the Command line (non-interactively)

There are times when you will wish to run a Mathematica non-interactively, e.g. when submitting batch jobs to an HPC cluster.

In this case, you should place your Mathematica commands into a file using the text editor of your choice. For this example, we will assume the commands are in a file my-math-script.m. You should then run the script with the command

math -noprompt -script my-math-script.m

The math command runs the command-line version of Mathematica (as opposed to the mathematica command which launches the full GUI version), the -noprompt flag suppresses the display of the command prompt, and the -script arguments instructs Mathematica to take its input from the filename following the argument.