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1 Installation hints

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.