MATLAB and Simulink
MathWorks Inc. | R2014b Dec 2014Linux/Unix, Ubuntu 12.04 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Better port to another language
It seems to be easier to port to another language than to run an AWS instance with MATLAB on it. It's 2016, MathWorks. Please try to get a handle on this cloud thing.
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Buggy Software
Very nice with an AMI ready for use with matlab, but when the activation is not working, it is not useful.
When I follow the installation steps, I can login, and activate my license. When I run matlab again, it says it's still not activated.
You dont paid from your own pocket for a licence, this would be pretty useless for u
tried to use my university licence, of course it doesnt work.
seriously, without the possibility of a on-demand licence, the ppl who could use it will be pretty limited.
Activation bug with academic licens
Very nice with an AMI ready for use with matlab, but when the activation is not working, it is not useful.
When I follow the installation steps, I can login, and activate my license. When I run matlab again, it says it's still not activated.
Why no Matlab license rental?
I would gladly buy this product by the hour (we know the yearly license cost for Matlab, I would gladly play multiples of that in hourly rate), but I am very reluctant to fiddle with my university licenses (and I am not sure the fine print allows it to be installed on AWS anyway).
So please, bring possibility of Matlab license rental. It would be a great product.
Not Useful
Don't waste your time with this. As the other reviewer pointed out, a lot of potential here but have to BYOL and must install 3rd party software to login. Get with the game Mathworks.
Does Not Support on Demand Licensing
This AMI release requires that you bring your own Matlab licence file (*.lic) with you.
There is no AMI to purchase a Matlab licence by the hour. Even though you purchase the AWS resources by the hour.
This is problematic for many users. For example
- The user who is new to Matlab who wants to experiment with running something on the cloud but does not want to commit to several thousand pounds of licences.
- The user who works at a large company/ university and whose licences are held on a licence server etc. Accessing the licence is not always very simple.
- The user who only wants to use matlab for a few hours a month, in line with AWS pricing. Why should he have to buy a full cost annual licence?
As a final note, the MATLAB Distributed Computing Server (MDCS) toolbox does include a pay as you go functionality. However, in our opinion the pricing model on this is very poorly executed. Two prime reasons are (1) You pay per worker. For 3,000 workers the cost is £300K (!!!!) per year. This is simply incredible - quite often people want to do simulations far in excess of 3,000 workers (eg Cycle computing used 30,000 cores for a pharma sim in Sep 2011, http://www.cyclecomputing.com/blog/new-cyclecloud-cluster-is-a-triple-threat-30000-cores-massive-spot-instances-grill-chef-monitoring-g/). (2) When you are a dealing with serious "big-data" it is VERY likely you will want to participate in the spot market, or have a very good idea about which instances you want to use for your task. MDCS does not allow this, as it only supports two/three instances and NOT the spot market. Hence increasing user costs 60%. Incredible. Mathworks say there are no plans to change this. We just wonder who uses these products at these prices....
In summary, for many users, Matlab does not support cloud computing and the user is better off going with R or Python.
If you would like the Mathworks dev team to change this and allow an on-demand licence, then please leave a review here.,