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Note: For using a cluster of machines, identical versions of the package are required to be installed at each machine.
Maybe your distribution provides the parallel package.
If not, or if you want a newer version, Octaves pkg
command
allows building the package from source and installing it. Note that you
have to load
any Octave package before you can use it. See
Octaves documentation of pkg
.
Parallel execution over a cluster by default is protected by encryption
with authentication. This needs a version of the gnutls library in which
TLS-SRP is not disabled. For building the parallel package from source,
this library must be present during the build; some operating systems
provide development files of libraries in exta ...-dev
packages,
which are also needed during the build.
Building or using the package for cluster execution without gnutls will work, but encryption and authentication are not available in this case.