MATLAB

Who can use MATLAB

Only vsc1* users (affiliated with VUB) who are members of the brusselall group have rights to use the MATLAB app.

Before you connect

MATLAB automatically generates several hidden folders in your $VSC_HOME, including the folder .MathWorks, which can become quite big over time. To prevent $VSC_HOME from filling up, we recommend creating symlinks to redirect this folder to your $VSC_DATA directory. If this folder already exists, you can safely delete it. Execute the following commands to automate the process:

rm -rv ~/.MathWorks
mkdir -pv $VSC_DATA/.MathWorks
ln -sv $VSC_DATA/.MathWorks ~/.MathWorks

Launching MATLAB

To launch MATLAB via the web portal, select your desired MATLAB version from the drop-down menu in the resources form. Given that our current MATLAB installations automatically detect GPU devices and CUDA libraries, you may also request GPU(s) as resources, if needed.

Upon launching the session, the selected MATLAB module is loaded and the MATLAB Proxy starts, which then launches MATLAB and provides web-based access to it (after waiting for a few minutes).