Software at MIT

Name: MATLAB
Category: Numerical/Math - Matrix Manipulation
Last modified: Th Mar 21, 2013
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Contents

• What is MATLAB? Where does it come from?

• MATLAB on Athena

• MATLAB at MIT

• Documentation, Tutorials, and Other Resources

  • Online Documentation

  • Introductory Guides and Tutorials

  • General MATLAB Resources

Students are eligible to receive MATLAB free of charge for academic use on personally owned machines. For more information, see: MATLAB at MIT: Student MATLAB (MIT certificate and student status required for access).

For information about acquiring MATLAB for Faculty and Staff on MIT owned computers, see the software grid (enter MATLAB in the Title section).

New (3/21/13): MATLAB 8.1 is now available

What is MATLAB? Where does it come from?

MATLAB is a technical computing environment for high-performance numeric computation and visualization, produced by The MathWorks Inc. It includes a number of subject specific toolboxes as well as a dynamic system simulation package, Simulink.

MATLAB on Linux machines via OpenAFS: MATLAB access via OpenAFS is allowed only for students (undergraduate and graduate). Other users must purchase licenses from VSLS software

MATLAB on Athena

MATLAB 8.0/Release 2012b is the current default (i.e., this is the version obtained by typing: add matlab; matlab).

MATLAB 6.5.1, 7.3 and 8.1 are also available; see the links below for more information.

• MATLAB versions on Athena

• What's new in the Athena MATLAB locker

• Toolboxes and blocksets on Athena

For information on new features in the latest release, see:

• Release Notes

MATLAB at MIT

MATLAB is an officially supported software package for the MIT Athena Computing Environment. By "officially supported" we mean:

• We try to provide current versions of MATLAB on all Athena platforms.

• The Athena Consultants will help Athena users asking MATLAB questions in OLC, and will maintain a collection of stock answers to common questions.

• To obtain MATLAB for non-Athena machines please go to the software grid (enter MATLAB in the Title section).

Documentation, Tutorials, and Other Resources

Online Documentation

The MathWorks' web-based online "Help Desk" includes a full documentation set in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, a searchable command index, and links to other information. There are several ways to view the online documentation:

• From MATLAB: >> helpdesk ( or doc in R2012b and later)

• From MATLAB's web site

Introductory Guides and Tutorials

• MATLAB Mastery: an introductory web-based tutorial by TechnicalMastery (certificates required)

General MATLAB Resources

• The MATLAB Digest, MathWorks' electronic newsletter and FAQ.

• The UNIX newsgroup comp.soft-sys.matlab. often has technical discussions that include members of the MathWorks staff.

• The MATLAB in Education page from The MathWorks is dedicated to educational applications of the program.

• The MATLAB at Indiana University page includes numerous pointers to MATLAB resources on the WWW.

Problems or Questions?

Help with MATLAB
If you are affiliated with MIT, contact Athena Consulting (on Athena, type "olc"). Otherwise, see the other resources above or contact The MathWorks for help.

Sending bug reports
Athena users should report problems via the "sendbug" command.

Software at MIT
For questions or suggestions about availability of software on Athena, send mail to 3partysw@mit.edu.

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