This is the information I
received regarding departmental MATLAB licenses from Josh Larios
on Jan. 7, 2014:
The
CSS license for MATLAB covers 33 concurrent users, and
includes the core, plus the following toolboxes: Neural Network,
Optimization,
Parallel Computing, Statistics. I'm updating the installation in
the linux lab
today, and it will definitely be available on all 16 machines
there (uw1-320-00.uwb.edu through uw1-320-15.uwb.edu). Those
machines are
all remotely accessible with a command line via ssh, or with a
graphical
session by following the instructions at http://depts.washington.edu/cssuwb/wiki/using_tsvnc_to_connect_to_the_linux_lab.
The CSS license for MATLAB should also be installed on all
the machines in the CSS Windows lab as well, but I think that they
got a
different license accidentally, and I need to put together an
installation job
to fix those. I expect they'll have the updated MATLAB with the
correct license
by the end of this week, though. Windows lab machines are not
remotely
accessible.
I strongly recommend you follow the instructions for setting up
graphical sessions, as this will give you access to the wealth of
interactive features in the MATLAB GUI. In the first step
you will download ssvnc,
a utility for creating fast graphical connections to Linux
machines. When I downloaded the latest version for Windows,
ssvnc_windows_only-1.0.29.zip,
I got a complaint from Sophos, my anti-virus software, about a
file called netcat.exe.
Another user of ssvnc
posted that he got the same warning from his Symantec
software. As far as I can tell, there is no risk to using
this file. The latest version of ssvnc turns out to be identical to
what we used two years ago in the course, and at that time it did
not provoke anyone's anti-virus software or cause any other
problems. But proceed at your own risk. There are
other VNC utilities available.
I followed the rest of the instructions and opened a graphical
session on uw1-320-10 from my 64-bit Windows Vista laptop.
Everything seemed to work exactly as described. Once the
graphical session is open, you can start MATLAB from the menu bar:
Applications Menu > Development > MATLAB.