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SUMMARY: New matlab available for testing

We have installed a new version of Matlab (R2010b) on our Linux (32-bit and 64-bit) and the (64-bit) Intel based OSX machines. A few people have been testing it for a few weeks and none have reported any problems so far.

Please test your code with this new version especially if you use the Matlab compiler.

Assuming that no major problems are found, it will become the default matlab in a couple of weeks. Some really old versions of matlab may be removed at the same time.

The command to start the new version is:

     matlab-r2010b

This is the first installation here with the set of toolboxes included in the University licence as well as those that were bought by the department/groups - and hence a much larger set of toolboxes are available.

On MacOSX you can launch the Graphical version (if you are logged into on the console) by running 'matlab-r2010b' or by using:

open /opt/matlab-r2010b/MATLAB_R2010b.app

This .app name is what we will link to to let the OSX finder see it as an application - on OSX open does what the GUI would do to 'launch' a pathname.

Here is some trivial test output (from console session on 64-bit linux):

     $ matlab-r2010b -nosplash -nodesktop; stty sane
     
                                     < M A T L A B (R) >
                           Copyright 1984-2010 The MathWorks, Inc.
                        Version 7.11.0.584 (R2010b) 64-bit (glnxa64)
                                       August 16, 2010
     
        To get started, type one of these: helpwin, helpdesk, or demo.
        For product information, visit www.mathworks.com.
     >> ver
     -----------------------------------------------------------------------
     MATLAB Version 7.11.0.584 (R2010b)
     MATLAB License Number: 666637
     Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-238.5.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Mar 1 18:58:43 EST 2011 x86_64
     Java VM Version: Java 1.6.0_24-b07 with Sun Microsystems Inc. Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM mixed mode
     -----------------------------------------------------------------------
     MATLAB                                      Version 7.11 (R2010b)
     Simulink                                    Version 7.6  (R2010b)
     Bioinformatics Toolbox                      Version 3.6  (R2010b)
     Control System Toolbox                      Version 9.0  (R2010b)
     Curve Fitting Toolbox                       Version 3.0  (R2010b)
     Image Processing Toolbox                    Version 7.1  (R2010b)
     Instrument Control Toolbox                  Version 2.11 (R2010b)
     MATLAB Compiler                             Version 4.14 (R2010b)
     Optimization Toolbox                        Version 5.1  (R2010b)
     Parallel Computing Toolbox                  Version 5.0  (R2010b)
     Parallel Computing Toolbox                  Version 5.0  (R2010b)
     Partial Differential Equation Toolbox       Version 1.0.17 (R2010b)
     Signal Processing Blockset                  Version 7.1  (R2010b)
     Signal Processing Toolbox                   Version 6.14 (R2010b)
     SimMechanics                                Version 3.2.1 (R2010b)
     Simscape                                    Version 3.4  (R2010b)
     Stateflow                                   Version 7.6  (R2010b)
     Statistics Toolbox                          Version 7.4  (R2010b)
     Symbolic Math Toolbox                       Version 5.5  (R2010b)
     >>

and similar things on 32-bit linux or 64-bit Intel OSX.

Note that this version no longer supports the 32-bit only Intel OSX machines, the previous release dropped support for PPC OSX machines. This is the last version of matlab which will support our (current) OSX 10.5 setup. Mathworks say that matlab R2011a will drop support for OSX 10.5