MATLAB
According to the MathWorks, MATLAB is “a high-level language and interactive environment that enables you to perform computationally intensive tasks faster than with traditional programming languages such as C, C++, and Fortran.”
MATLAB is available on the math department's Linux systems by typing
matlab
at a shell prompt.
The default version of MATLAB as of 2005 September 2 is R14, Service Pack 3.
Classroom vs. Research Licenses
Mudd has two licenses for MATLAB. One is for use in classes and for doing homework assigned in classes. That license cannot be used for research. The other license is a research license.
Each license has a slightly different set of packages (“Toolboxes”) installed, as shown in the following table:
| Toolbox Name | Research License | Classroom License |
|---|---|---|
| Communications | Yes | |
| Control System | Yes | |
| Curve Fitting | Yes | Yes |
| Fuzzy Logic | Yes | |
| Image Processing | Yes | Yes |
| MATLAB (itself) | Yes | Yes |
| MATLAB Compiler | Yes | Yes |
| Neural Network | Yes | Yes |
| Optimization | Yes | Yes |
| Partial Differential Equation | Yes | Yes |
| Real-Time Workshop | Yes | Yes |
| Signal Processing | Yes | Yes |
| Simulink | Yes | Yes |
| Simulink Control Design | Yes | |
| Stateflow | Yes | |
| Statistics | Yes | Yes |
| Symbolic Math | Yes | Yes |
| System Identification | Yes | Yes |
| Wavelet | Yes | Yes |
Please note that the research license version is the default on
our systems. When you run MATLAB by typing matlab at a
prompt, you will be running the research license.
Running the Classroom License Version
If you need to run the classroom license version of MATLAB, you can do by typing
/shared/local/matlab-classroom/bin/matlab
at a shell prompt.
Older Version(s)
We maintain a couple of older versions of MATLAB on our system, in case your code doesn't run on the newer version and you can't take the time to update it. These older versions will remain for “a while”, where “a while” comes down to when disk space on the partition is getting tight or when Mudd's license server no longer allows an older version to run, whichever comes first.
To run an older version of MATLAB, you can either modify your
PATH to include the directory the older version is
installed in before the standard path (which is
/shared/local/bin; we maintain links to the MATLAB
executables there) or you can type the entire path to the
executable.
We currently have the following versions of MATLAB installed and
working. All installs can be found in /shared/local,
so to run one of the other versions, you'll have to type
/shared/local/version_name/bin/matlab.
- MATLAB R14, Service Pack 2
matlabR14sp2-2matlabR14sp2.2005-07-06
- MATLAB R14, Service Pack 3
matlabR14sp3.research.2005-09-01(research license; default)matlabR14sp3.classroom.2005-09-01(classroom license)
