MATLAB: How to use matlab remotly

matlab access

Hi all
I will be accessing my work computer from home and i need to make some graphs , ( dont have matlab in my home computer) but i do in my work computer. also i am using linux
i was wondering does anybody know how to do that 1: run matlab in the work computer while accessing form home 2 if i have a script . can i use it and how do i run it.
Any help will be appreciated thank you
Sara

Best Answer

One of the common remote graphics protocols that is usable on Linux and Windows is named VNC.
Unfortunately I have not been able to get VNC to work properly with MATLAB (or some other programs.) The difficulty I encounter is that any JAVA component does not render in to the VNC-relayed area. No graphs, no desktop.
What kind of system are you using at home? It may have X (Linux has it; Mac OS has it but you might have to start it up first; you can get commercial X for MS Windows from Hummingbird; you can get free X for MS Windows in a unix emulation layer such as AT&T's uwin). If you have X and can get it set up properly, then ssh -X (Unix-style) or putty (Windows) should be able to allow you to do a remote login to the system at work (firewalls permitting) and to display the graphics to your desktop. Depending on your line speed and the latency to your workplace, the result might be somewhere between "sluggish but okay" and "I could have walked to work, done everything, and walked back before it rendered the first screen!".
I work less than 5 km from my office, but my office's internet connection goes through a private network to a central control point more than 1500 km away; the resulting latency makes it take about 4 minutes per frame to render. My blood pressure can't deal with that.
VNC works much much faster than remote X except perhaps in high-speed local networks; unfortunate that VNC will not work with Java for me.
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