MATLAB Update
The University of Tennessee now has a system-wide license agreement with The MathWorks that makes MATLAB, Simulink and 54 other products available for free to all University of Tennessee faculty, staff and students. The MathWorks MATLAB and Simulink products are computational software environments for use in engineering, mathematics, statistics, science and finance. The other 54 products are optional toolboxes that work within the MATLAB and Simulink environments. When MATLAB is mentioned to below, it refers to this entire software suite.
The system-wide license agreement, called TAH (Total Academic Headcount), began July 1, 2008, and is an annual license. The TAH license replaces all eligible licenses that UT has with The MathWorks. All existing active licenses with current Software Maintenance Services (SMS) were suspended and placed in storage. Should UT decide not to renew the TAH agreement, the stored licenses in the most recent version can be taken from storage after paying a one year maintenance fee.
If people in the university have MATLAB installed and want to continue using their license, they may do so. However, if they want to upgrade to MATLAB 2008, or add any of the 54 other products, they must use the UT system-wide TAH license.
There are four major steps to follow to use the TAH license. 1. Create a MathWorks account. 2. Associate your account with the TAH license using the Activation Key that is included in the UT installation instructions. 3. Download MATLAB products from The MathWorks web site and install MATLAB software. The website is restricted to UT faculty, staff and students. 4. Activate the MATLAB software.
Instructions and activation keys can be downloaded from the Internet Downloads area of http://oit.utk.edu/software. A NetID and password are required for access.
The TAH MATLAB license allows installations that use a network license server. Departmental lab administrators can avoid having to activate a MATLAB license on each workstation by directing those workstations to a network license server. College of Engineering departments may email the IT staff of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at help@eecs.utk.edu for assistance with network concurrent licenses. UTK departments can also email labs@utk.edu to request access to the OIT Lab Services Matlab license server.
The TAH agreement includes direct support from The MathWorks. Problems with download, installation, and activation should be directed to MathWorks support: http://www.mathworks.com/support/contact_us/
For new users, MATLAB tutorials are available here: http://www.mathworks.com/academia/student_center/tutorials/
Students have access to the same software as faculty. The MATLAB & Simulink Student Version is a separate product and is not included in the TAH agreement. The requirement for engineering students to purchase the student version has been removed from COE and UC Computer Store websites.
Special thanks to all COE faculty who have made this agreement possible: Doug Birdwell, Wayne Davis, Alberto Garcia, Dave Icove, Jesse Poore, Tse-Wei Wang and Luther Wilhelm.