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<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt">Dear Fieldtrippers,<br>
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Although I have succesfully used the command-line ./peerslave.glnxa64 to launch slaves for parallel analysis of my batch jobs, I am somehow not able to pass arguments to the command, for example ./peerslave.glnxa64 --number 8, to launch 8 slaves at once. Could
anybody tell me what’s going on?<br>
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When I execute without arguments this line pops up:<br>
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</span></font><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Arial">niels@gb-r35n18:~/matlab/fieldtrip-20110526/peer/bin$ ./peerslave.glnxa64<br>
peerslave[9705]: peerinit: <font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="niels@gb-r35n18.irc.sara.nl">niels@gb-r35n18.irc.sara.nl</a></u></font>, id = 4020038417
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All seems fine: the master is indeed able to send jobs to the slave. No other information is printed to the shell when it gets a job or whatever (is this normal?).<br>
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Now when I try to run the --help I get this:<br>
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</font><font face="Arial">niels@gb-r35n18:~/matlab/fieldtrip-20110526/peer/bin$ ./peerslave.glnxa64 --help<br>
peerslave[9753]: peerinit: <font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="niels@gb-r35n18.irc.sara.nl">niels@gb-r35n18.irc.sara.nl</a></u></font>, id = 2887682376<br>
parser: cannot open file --help<br>
peerslave[9753]: cannot read the configuration file<br>
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And when I try to do --number 8:<br>
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</font><font face="Arial">niels@gb-r35n18:~/matlab/fieldtrip-20110526/peer/bin$ ./peerslave.glnxa64 --number 8<br>
peerslave[9759]: peerinit: <font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="niels@gb-r35n18.irc.sara.nl">niels@gb-r35n18.irc.sara.nl</a></u></font>, id = 3997336815<br>
./peerslave.glnxa64: unrecognized option '--number'<br>
peerslave[9759]: invalid command line options<br>
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I have recompiled the peerslave.glnxa64 by editing the Makefile and using make, but the problem persists. I am using MATLAB 2011a on a 64 bit linux node with 8 cores, which I access interactively using ssh –X.<br>
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Any ideas would be appreciated!<br>
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Best,<br>
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Niels Kloosterman<br>
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</font></span><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><font color="#7E7E7E"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:8pt">Niels A. Kloosterman MSc.<b>|</b></span></font></font><font size="1"><span style="font-size:8pt"><b><font color="#959595"> PhD student</font></b><font color="#959595">
<b>| </b>University of Amsterdam <b>| </b>Cognitive Neuroscience Group <b>| </b>Dept. of Psychology
<b>| </b>Roetersstraat 15, A614 <b>| </b>1018 WB Amsterdam <b>| </b>Tel: +31 20 525 6847</font></span></font></font>
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