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Online (web-based) Matlab
Posted By Yair Altman On August 4, 2014 | 5 Comments
For many years I searched for a good solution for deploying Matlab applications in online web-pages. There used to be a solution over a decade ago but it was taken off the market. We could use the Java Builder to wrap our Matlab apps in a JAR that could be called by a Java-based application server, but we’d still need to develop the front-end web GUI as well as the middle-tier plumbing. A similar limitation exists if we wish to use the new Matlab Production Server (MSP). Developing this front-end and middle-tier is by no means a trivial exercise, as much as MathWorks presentations would like it to appear. Not to mention the fact that the Builder and the MSP are relatively costly (~$5-7K and ~$30K respectively).
I was thrilled to see the answer in the recent Matlab Computational Finance Conference, London [1]. I presented [2] at last year’s conference, so I was excited to review this year’s presentations when I came across a nugget in Kevin Shea’s keynote presentation on new Matlab developments. Note that there were two separate Matlab computational-finance events in 2014 – in London (June 24) and NY (April 9); the interesting piece is from London. Unlike the NY conference, the London conference proceedings do not include a video recording, only the slides (perhaps the video will be added to the proceedings page later, after all it takes some time to process). The last slide of Kevin’s presentation [3] shows a screenshot of a Chrome browser displaying what appears to be a full-fledged Matlab desktop (Workspace, Editor, Command Window, figures) at https://matlab.mathworks.com [4]:
Categories: Desktop, Medium risk of breaking in future versions, Semi-documented feature
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[1] Matlab Computational Finance Conference, London: https://www.mathworks.com/company/events/conferences/matlab-computational-finance-conference/2014/agenda.html
[2] presented: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/ib-matlab/real-time-trading-system-demo
[3] last slide of Kevin’s presentation: https://www.mathworks.com/company/events/conferences/matlab-computational-finance-conference/2014/proceedings/new-developments-in-matlab-for-computational-finance.pdf#Page=28
[4] https://matlab.mathworks.com: https://matlab.mathworks.com
[5] Image: http://www.mathworks.com/images/nextgen/supporting/products/online/placeholder_for_video_wl.jpg
[6] limitations: http://mathworks.com/products/matlab/online/limitations.html
[7] http://mathworks.com/products/matlab/online: http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/online
[8] dedicated documentation: http://mathworks.com/help/matlab-web/documentation-center.html
[9] official list of products: http://mathworks.com/pricing-licensing/index.html
[10] Image: http://www.mathworks.com/images/nextgen/supporting/products/online/matlab_web_desktop_wl.jpg
[11] post: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/122118-what-cloud-services-does-mathworks-support
[12] HG2: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/hg2-update
[13] Techila: http://www.techilatechnologies.com
[14] already shown: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/gui-integrated-browser-control
[15] Plotly: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/plotly-graphs
[16] Home License: http://mathworks.com/pricing-licensing/index.html?intendeduse=home
[17] Advanced Matlab online webinars : https://undocumentedmatlab.com/articles/advanced-matlab-online-webinars
[18] Changes in the online doc URLs : https://undocumentedmatlab.com/articles/changes-in-the-online-doc-urls
[19] Matlab toolstrip – part 1 : https://undocumentedmatlab.com/articles/matlab-toolstrip-part-1
[20] Changing Matlab's Command Window colors – part 2 : https://undocumentedmatlab.com/articles/changing-matlab-command-window-colors-part2
[21] Setting the Matlab desktop layout programmatically : https://undocumentedmatlab.com/articles/setting-the-matlab-desktop-layout-programmatically
[22] Sending email/text messages from Matlab : https://undocumentedmatlab.com/articles/sending-email-text-messages-from-matlab
[23] : http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/online/
[24] : https://coursework.mathworks.com/
[25] : https://www.apponfly.com/en/application/matlab
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5 Comments To "Online (web-based) Matlab"
#1 Comment By Amro On August 5, 2014 @ 05:20
Huge news! It seems everyone is building a cloud-based online version of their product (I’m thinking Wolfram Mathematica: [23])
Looking around, I also found another service “Cody Coursework”: [24]
#2 Comment By Mickey On August 5, 2014 @ 14:43
I think that the online desktop is one issue, the lack of a web framework another issue.
For the first, compare to rstudio, which is a great online desktop for R.
R also has impressive web frameworks. Why is mathwork behind?
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#4 Comment By John S. On April 22, 2015 @ 09:04
Another instance of accessing MATLAB latest release is through this remote desktop service: [25]
#5 Comment By Carlo Monjaraz On March 14, 2017 @ 19:01
Well now I guess it went mainstream with 2017a :).
I wonder how is it managed the CPU quotas, couldnt find information related. That is actually how I landed up in this post 🙂
Greetings.