Comments on: Pouncing on Snow Leopard

By: Ken Atwell

Ken Atwell — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:29:29 +0000

@Lasse, can you send your bench results (use a methodology like I used in reply #12 above) to me at ken.atwell AT mathworks.com? Not all aspects of BENCH are multi-threaded, so more core will results in a less than linear speed-up.

By: Lasse Ruokolainen

Lasse Ruokolainen — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:30:22 +0000

I just got a new macBook Pro, with 2.66 GHz Intel i7 and 8 MB of RAM. This machine is running the native Matlab R2010b. Now, this computer should have a shitload of horse power. Still the benchmark tells me that my machine is almost twice as slow as a Linux machine with 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2. Needles to say that I’m very disappointed. When running Matlab, only ~25% of the processing capacity is used. This implies that there is some incompatibility with matlab and the new processor architecture. Is there some hope of fixing this issue?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:31:14 +0000

@thomas, I don't have any information about that; try searching our solutions database or contacting technical support for assistance.

By: thomas decloedt

thomas decloedt — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:13:35 +0000

i am running matlab R2010a on mac 10.6.4.
When making plots, the text inside my labels gets cut off.
The only work around i have found so far is to add a few extra spaces after the text. Sub-or superscripts don’t look very good either.

By: Mahdi

Mahdi — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:25:42 +0000

I installed R2010a on Snow Leopard and it is still using the X11! Besides, Simulink’s dialogs look like Win95 applications. I cannot wait to see MATLAB running natively on Mac :(

By: Ken Atwell (MathWorks)

Ken Atwell (MathWorks) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:23:40 +0000

@Samsa,
The Mac that we used to create the comparison benchmark at @12 was done on a Mac Pro with multi-boot enabled through EFI. That is a low-level switch, so I expect that Windows 7’s performance on this system is fairly analogous to a more “traditional” PC system with a similar hardware configuration. Stated different, the benchmark at @12 should fairly represent how a “normal” PC would perform.

By: Samsa

Samsa — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:19:23 +0000

Hello!

I just read all the comments and can’t believe it. It seems like if Matlab on OSX is becoming useable – great!
For me there’s one question left. According to the Bench results in post 12 it is an evidence, that the OSX version is (in average) as fast as the Win version running with Boot Camp (or something similar). But: Is the speed, Matlab running on a Mac comparable to the performence of Matlab on a normal PC (with Win)? For sure the test should include a Mac and a PC with similar specifications.
Would be great to know that.

regards

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:36:23 +0000

@Chaitanya_A, Please contact technical support for help on license manager issues. http://www.mathworks.com/support/service_requests/contact_support.do

By: Chaitanya_A

Chaitanya_A — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:28:33 +0000

Hi,
Our system admin has been trying to install MATLAB2008b on my brand new Mac OSX 10.6 Snowy white leopard.

We have a network license system in place, but after putting in the relevant lines in the .bashrc I still get “License Manager Error – 96″

The line in the .bashrc file is:


#MATLAB
export LM_LICENSE_FILE=2700@ip_num_of_license_server

Any help/advice is appreciated!
Cheers,
Chai

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:37:56 +0000

Not entirely in 9b. For further assistance, contact technical support