[auton-users] MATLAB

[predragp at andrew.cmu.edu]

Dear Autonians,

If you are MATLAB user I have a good news for you. I was to able to
wrestle free standing unlimited MATLAB license from Miss Laura K. Walsh
who is MATLAB software licensing manager for CMU for all Auton desktops
and computing nodes. In practical terms that means that I am the MATLAB
license manager for Auton Lab with MathWorks account and our computers
will need not to verify through CMU licensing server.  Over next couple
of days many of Linux desktop users (I have Windows copies too) will
notice

/usr/local/MATLAB

directory on their computers. The directory contains the latest 2013a
edition of MATLAB with all tool boxes licensed to CMU. To use the local
copy of MATLAB you will have to use absolute path

/usr/local/MATLAB/R2013a/bin/matlab

to launch the application.

Preferably you can edit search path

export PATH=/usr/local/MATLAB/R2013a/bin/

or edit alias to your shell profile.  For example my .kshrc (I always
use Korn shell) reads

alias matlab='/usr/local/MATLAB/R2013a/bin/matlab'

Computing nodes which are currently deployed will be eventually switch
to the new licensing model which means that you will not see any nasty
surprises due to down time of CMU MATLAB licensing server. However at
this point the highest priority is to deploy two new computing nodes 64
cores and 256 GB RAM each which will first have new  MATLAB
installation.

I would also like to call at this point MATLAB users to switch from
using a copy of MATLAB installed on our file server to using local
copies of MATLAB for code writing, debugging, and testing before hitting
computing nodes. That would help speed up our network connections.
Please let me know if you need a copy of MATLAB and you are under Auton
Lab software support.

Most Kind Regards,
Predrag Punosevac