Couple of ways to access our powerful mac pro workstation, I’ll outline some possibilities and some recommendations. Basically there’re two of them when you are away from these computers.
One is to remote login them and use your own computer as a command center, the output of the workstation will get back to you through the terminal window, if x11 window is enabled, you’ll see a beautiful graph showing on your screen. The computation is all on the workstation.
Another one is less obvious, you mount the workstation hard drive on your own computer, and do the work as you do normally. When accessing data, it’ll be sent to your computer from workstation transparently. The computation is all on your own machine, but all the software you installed on your own machine will shine.
You can see, both ways has it’s good and bad. It’s up to you to find the best combination to do the work at hand. For some of us, the following combination might work.
1) Remote login to any of our workstation through xterm. Use “matlab -nojvm” to launch matlab for post-processing, 2D, and minimum 3D graphing job. There’s no good 3D support and window control for matlab in OSX through x11 for now.
2) Another way I heard is that you copy data back to your own machine and launch matlab there. If that’s the case, you could try mount the harddrive on your machine, so it’ll save you lots of time moving back and forth the data file.
3) For trivial task, you can do either of the way mentioned above, personally I found the mounting works on my mac laptop, since I have my workflow unstopped.
Hope the above helps, if you want to do mount on mac, try this post for mounting any internet hard drive on your computer. If you have any question, just come and ask, thanks.
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