Remote Developing with Matlab

Hi!

Does Matlab support remote development?

We would like to develop with an IDE on a client system, create projects and edit files in the same way as one does for local projects. But when running or debug the code, the process should run on a remote server. The experience should be as close as possible to developing directly on the remote system.

Best regards, Georg

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

I recommend you contact your sales representative (or the MathWorks Sales department if you have not already purchased the product) and describe your desired workflow and constraints to them. They can describe various licensing and setup options and explain how they may support your workflow.

Since you mentioned bandwidth is a potential issue MATLAB Online probably isn't an option, but perhaps locally installed MATLAB sessions running your code on a cluster using Parallel Computing Toolbox and MATLAB Distributed Computing Server may do what you want.

You can contact Sales using the Contact Us link in the upper-right corner of this page.

Answer 2

[Jan]

This would be trivial using a remote desktop, e.g. Windows RDP service, VLC, TeamViewer, Chrome Remote Desktop, etc. Then you are not only "as close as possible" to developing directly on the remote system, but you are working there in fact.

[Georg]

Thank you for the fast answer.

Is there another option than using a remote desktop?

We would prefer a remote development solution where we don't need a graphical connection to the remote computer. We are a bit concerned about the limitations of our internet connection if many developers need to use graphical remote connections. Therefore we would prefer a solution where we run the code on a remote machine but still have the editor with debugging functionality locally.

[Image Analyst]

You mean like grid/cloud computing where you edit locally but the program gets shipped off to the cloud/grid where some supercomputer, like from Amazon, Microsoft, HP, or NVidia, does the heavy lifting and just send you back the lightweight results?

[Georg]

Yes, in principle like this but also for the easy, non computational expensive tasks and also the development and debugging should take place on a remote computer.

Basically a solution for Matlab like it is described here for Python: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2015/03/feature-spotlight-python-remote-development-with-pycharm/

[Simon Li]

I have the same problem. Have you figured it out?