If you search for cloud matlab you’ll find result #2 is the following question on Matlab’s help pages:
This states that it is possible to run Matlab on Amazon EC2, and if you share name, phone, email, and more they’ll share this whitepaper with you detailing how to do it (it sounds complex but feasible). Note that the paper is written for system administrators, not users.
Really, MathWorks – do you think the majority of your users actually want to setup their own Amazon EC2 instances, generate their own AMIs, manage their own backups at yet another location, and then purchase additional *expensive* Matlab licenses for the pleasure of all this?
To reiterate our raison d’etre – we think not. We think professionals (such as ourselves) are annoyed whenever system administration, complexity, and cost stand in between us and our important algorithms, experiments, and computations. We think professionals want a service like Monkey Analytics that delivers scalable computation in a box. (We also think they want cloud features, not thick client software, but maybe that’s a generational thing).
We’re here, we’ve launched, and we believe in what we’ve built. Come take a look and see if you don’t agree. Let us know either way!
In case this sounded too ranty – obviously MathWork's whitepaper is the perfect solution for some people. Monkey Analytics is based on GNU Octave, and some people will still need MathWorks only Matlab features or other offerings that make all the overhead and complexity rational.
That said, we still think MathWorks would be smarter to offer it all in a neatly tied up package, but that is a very different business model from their expensive professional licenses, which they are clearly trying to protect.
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In case this sounded too ranty – obviously MathWork's whitepaper is the perfect solution for some people. Monkey Analytics is based on GNU Octave, and some people will still need MathWorks only Matlab features or other offerings that make all the overhead and complexity rational.
That said, we still think MathWorks would be smarter to offer it all in a neatly tied up package, but that is a very different business model from their expensive professional licenses, which they are clearly trying to protect.
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