ARC (Advance Research Computing) has set aside a limited number of shared nodes that utilize VirtualGL to support complex visualization applications on Great Lakes. To successfully run an interactive graphics job that requires VirtualGL, the user has to request the VIZ partition.
VirtualGL provide remote desktop and visualization capabilities for graphical applications.
Request an Interactive Job on the viz partition
To use Matlab, you need to load the appropriate module for the version you want to use. The following example shows how to load the latest MATLAB module (the $ is the prompt; do not type it).
$ module load matlab $ vglrun matlab -nosoftwareopengl