Start MATLAB on Linux Platforms. To start MATLAB® on Linux® platforms, type matlab at the operating system prompt. If you did not set up symbolic links in the installation procedure, then type matlabroot/bin/matlab. matlabroot is the name of the folder in which you installed MATLAB. After starting MATLAB, the desktop opens.
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This is a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ) for GNU Octave users. We are always looking for new questions (with answers), better answers, or both. Feel free to edit this page with your changes.
http://wiki.octave.org/FAQ
If, while running a MATLAB application, you find your computer is using little of the CPU, you may be experiencing thrashing. To detect thrashing on a Windows platform, use Windows Performance Monitor. On a Mac, use Activity Monitor.
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On Windows platforms, Database Toolbox supports Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) drivers and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) drivers. On UNIX platforms, Database Toolbox supports JDBC drivers. See product documentation for more details.
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Choosing a Computer to Run MATLAB and Simulink Products. Predicting how MATLAB will perform while running an application on a particular computer is difficult. MathWorks offers this general guidance on platform selection criteria and emphasizes that it is not a substitute for testing your application on a particular computer.
https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/choosing_hardware.html
322 views (last 30 days) 322 views (last 30 days) I would like to run MATLAB (32-bit) on a platform in which a 64-bit processor is running a 64-bit operating system.
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Note: Support for Windows 8 will be discontinued as of R2017b; however, support will continue for Windows 8.1.
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Octave runs on various Unices—at least Linux and Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows and anything you can compile it on. Binary distributions exist at least for Debian, SUSE, Fedora and RedHat Linuxes (Intel and AMD CPUs, at least), for Mac OS X and Windows' 98, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7.
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Requirements for GPU Computing CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GPU with compute capability 2.0 or higher. For releases 14a and earlier, compute capability 1.3 is sufficient. In a future release, support for GPU devices of compute capability 2.x will be removed. At that time, a minimum compute capability of 3.0 will be required.
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What's new in Octave. Each new Octave release introduces many new features. The following are a distilled list of the major changes. A complete list of user visible changes can be seen by running news at the Octave prompt, and a full list of changes is on the Template:Filepath distributed with the Octave sources.
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what platforms does matlab run on
Matlab does run on linux platforms.  Matrix laboratory runs on Linux platform.