However, not all of these releases may be supported by our compute cluster or network license manager. Depending on your science domain, you may need to select certain releases in order to access specific features. Different versions of Matlab are always installed side-by side.
#MATLAB DOCUMENTATION INSTALL#
Note: you can always install whichever Matlab release you need and that is still available from Mathworks.
#MATLAB DOCUMENTATION UPDATE#
This gives us time to try out the latest release, get feedback from other early adopters, and update services like the Distributed Computing Toolbox, license server and our documentation. In UAB IT Research Computing, we update our services to work with the latest Matlab release a month or so after the general release of that product. The current recommended release is Matlab 2013a. You should install our recommended release of Matlab that we know works with our services. If you plan to uses specific features of Matlab, however, like running computations on the Cheaha cluster or using a network install. If you are using Matlab in an isolated environment like on your laptop or desktop, you can generally install the most recent release available from Mathworks. For example, "Matlab 2013a" is the spring release for 2013. Each release gets tagged with the current year and "a" or "b". Mathworks has two annual releases of Matlab: the "a" release in the spring and the "b" release in the fall.
Additionally, from January 2012 MATLAB is available to students on campus and personal computer systems. In January 2011, UAB acquired a site license for MATLAB that allows faculty, staff, post-docs, and graduate students to use MATLAB, Simulink, and 42 toolboxes (including the parallel toolbox) for research activities on campus and personal systems. Additionally this toolbox supports offloading computationally intensive workloads to Cheaha the campus compute cluster. With the addition of the Parallel Computing Toolbox, the language can be extended with parallel implementations for common computational functions, including for-loop unrolling. MATLAB can be used on personal computers and powerful server systems, including the Cheaha compute cluster.
An additional package, Simulink, adds graphical multi-domain simulation and Model-Based Design for dynamic and embedded systems. Developed by Mathworks, MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages, including C, C++, and Fortran. MATLAB ( matrix laboratory) is a numerical computing environment and fourth-generation programming language.
#MATLAB DOCUMENTATION MAC OSX#
Mac OSX USERS click here to view any outstanding issues with installing MATLAB on OSX It provides file, shell, and desktop access to the cluster within your web browser. We encourage you to try it out as an alternative to traditional clients.