SOFTWARE: MathWorks Release 2008a (MATLAB Version 7.6 for Sun Solaris, Linux, MacOS X and Windows) on Campuswide License

DESCRIPTION: MATLAB is an integrated technical computing environment that combines numeric computation, advanced graphics and visualization, and a high-level programming language. A campuswide site license was obtained in November of 2005 through a cost sharing collaboration of the College of Engineering, the Ohio Supercomputer Center and the Office of Information Technology. For the current school year, the standard configuration of toolboxes is also available for student personal computer use with the exception of the Parallel Computing Toolbox.

NOTE: Beginning with R2008a, the MATLAB and Simulink product families require activation. Please see the following link for more information on this process:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/activation/index.html

Release 2008a includes updates to MATLAB and Simulink, several of the toolboxes OSU licenses and bug fixes to most of the OSU licensed products.

Included in the OSU Standard Configuration of toolboxes for Release 2008a in addition to MATLAB 7.6 and Simulink 7.1 are:

* - Only available for Windows 32-bit.
** - Purchased by OSC for use campuswide, previously called "Distributed Computing Toolbox"
*** - Purchased by Math and Physical Sciences for use campuswide.

For the list of enhancements including all enhancements to toolboxes after starting MATLAB, please see "Product Help", then "Release Notes" under the Contents tab. Release Notes are also at

http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/base/relnotes/

There are many considerations to using this release so these should be carefully reviewed. From the release notes site, scroll down the left panel and review "Compatibility Considerations" and "Installation and Activation."

PLATFORM: Sun: UltraSPARC; Linux: Pentium 4 and higher, AMD Athlon/Opteron, Intel Xeon/Core/Celeron, AMD 64 (64-bit version); Windows 32 bit systems: PC with Pentium 4 and higher, Intel Xeon/Core/Celeron, AMD Athlon/Opteron/Sempron processor; Windows 64-bit systems: Pentium 4 and higher, Intel Xeon/Core/Celeron and AMD64 processors; Macintosh: Intel.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Minimum: 512 MB of RAM; 510 MB of hard disk space for MATLAB module only and documentation. For 64-bit, 1024 MB minimum.

Mac, Linux and Solaris installs also require FLEXnet. This is installed by the MATLAB installer.

ELIGIBILITY: Faculty, academic staff and students, including student lab use.

RESTRICTIONS: This software may be used on OSU-owned computers anywhere in the United States. Faculty, staff and students may also use the software on their personally-owned computer, on campus, off campus, and via remote access. Faculty and academic staff may use it for classroom instruction and research activities only. Student use is limited to use in meeting classroom requirements and courses of study offered by OSU. Commercial use is prohibited. You may not copy the software except for backup purposes. You are allowed to use the software while you are affiliated with OSU. You must return the software to your department or OIT should you leave OSU.

PURCHASE: There is no license fee for the current school year.

This license also allows for OSU users to order additional toolboxes. Additional toolboxes will be ordered directly from The MathWorks and will be charged to the requester. Procedures for ordering additional toolboxes are explained further on

http://oit.osu.edu/site_license

Once there, select the platform of your choice and select MATLAB.

COST WITHOUT SITE LICENSE ARRANGEMENTS: The cost of the product with all of the OSU-licensed toolboxes for an educational single copy license is about $4100.

DISTRIBUTION METHOD: The software is available from OIT Customer Services, 512 Baker Systems. The software comes on DVD media for $5. The media may be paid for with a 100-W or you may exchange 1 blank DVD-R with white ink-jet printable label. No other media types are accepted. As a convenience, media is sold in the Bookstore at Central Classrooms. Also note that to facilitate distribution the MATLAB end user agreement is available on

http://oit.osu.edu/site_license

Select a platform, then MATLAB, then the link for the agreement to print it, fill it out and bring to Customer Services.

*** NOTICE to Engineering and Architecture undergrads: Your media has been paid for by Engineering. Therefore, you do NOT need to exchange media for the software. Your MATLAB Windows media will be only available on DVD. Engineering Grad students need to exchange media as noted above to obtain the software.

DOCUMENTATION: Installation instructions and license codes are included with the distribution. Install_Guide.pdf is on the installation media. In addition a very extensive Help system is installed with documentation on MATLAB and all toolboxes. The Help includes a reference section on each component detailing all commands. The Help system includes many short documents in PDF format.

Online documentation is at

http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/helpdesk.html

DISTRIBUTION QUESTIONS: May be directed to the Support Center at 688-help or 8help@osu.edu.