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 These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.
 
+To run, use an interactive node (ideally using 8 cores)
+```
+sinteractive --ntasks=1 --cpus-per-task=8 --mem-per-cpu=8192 --time=72:00:00 --partition=long
+```
+Then start matlab module and start matlab
+
+```
+module load rc/matlab/R2018a
+matlab
+```
+
 ### Prerequisites
 
 Needs matlab installed and the NODDI toolbox in the MATLAB path