Thread Subject: MATLAB on MacBook Pro under Ubuntu

 MATLAB on MacBook Pro under Ubuntu

I just bought a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6 and have installed Ubuntu 9.10 under Parallels Desktop 5 in order to run MATLAB 2009b efficiently. MATLAB runs too slowly on the MacBook Pro under OS X 10.6, in fact no faster than on my old PowerBook G4. I am referring here to the speed of a specific piece of highly iterated numerical computation code from my particular project.

My question is: I'd like to use the MATLAB parallel computing toolbox and related functionalities to further speed up the computations. Will I be able to do this using Ubuntu via the Parallels Desktop? Is the computer going to be able to see the two Mac Minis I plan to connect to the main computer? Or am I better off booting the Mac up from a Linux disk (if this is possible)? Or some other approach?

I'd appreciate hearing from someone who has tried to do something similar.

Thanks.

"Kevin Johnson" <defer.jof@gmail.com> wrote in message <hecg19$hur$1@fred.mathworks.com>...

P.S. I'm planning to also use the Distributed Computing Server to do this obviously.