Re: free Matlab access?

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Martin Weiser <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>
>> hello,
>>
>> during creation of my various contributions to improve Octave's
>> performance, I was often interested in how Octave performs compared to
>> Matlab. Though I have access to a machine with Matlab at Czech TU,
>> unfortunately the disk quota prevents me from compiling Octave on that
>> machine. Also, the Matlab version installed, 2007a is not quite the
>> most recent (though it's not bad). Technically I'm not a student of
>> CTU so negotiating a bigger quota is not that easy.
>> So I was just wondering if someone could easily set up a remote
>> account for me (or others) with access to Matlab and tools & space to
>> compile Octave? I think that such usage would even comply with a
>> research license (though it may not be the kind of research mw likes).
>>
>> regards
>>
>>
> Hello,
> what about supercomputers, clusters and grids? See http://meta.cesnet.cz If
> you are a member of any Czech university (as a student or a staff), it seems
> to me that you should be able to access it. It should be even available to
> the staff of the Czech Academia of Sciences
> AFAIK, Matlab is available on those machines.
> I hope this helps. Best,
> martin w.
>

Hi Martin,

this look interesting and quite easily accessible. Currently, I'm a
PhD student at cuni.
I also wonder whether they would be interested in installing Octave on
the cluster...

thanks

-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz