MATLAB Installation Guide for Unix

Running MATLAB on a Heterogeneous Network

You can run MATLAB and other MathWorks products on a heterogeneous network. A system acting as a license server can service clients running on workstations of different architectures.

For example, if you have a network with two SPARC workstations, an Alpha workstation, and an HP 9000, you can select any of your computers as the license server for all four computers.

To implement a heterogeneous licensing configuration, select one of the machines to be the license server. Request a License File from The MathWorks, specifying this machine's hostid. Create a License File, put it in your MATLAB root directory, and make sure the MATLAB root directory is available (mounted) on all workstations. Start the license manager on the machine selected as the license server.

License Manager Tools

Running MATLAB with Other FLEXlm Applications