Matlab | Research IT Core Services

Matlab

Licensing

Biomedical Informatics and the Imaging Research Center (IRC) recently merged their Matlab licenses, resulting in significant cost saving and an increase in the overall number of floating licenses to share. This move also provides both sets of users with more toolboxes.

We currently have floating licenses for the following toolboxes: Bioinformatics, Curve Fitting, Distributed Computing, Image Acquisition, Image Processing, Compiler, Neural Networks, Optimization, Signal Processing, Splines, Statistics, and Wavelets.

See the license allocation page for more information. If you have difficulties accessing the licenses, send an email to software@bmi.cchmc.org

Available to

All Cincinnati Children's employees on CCHMC issued assets only.

Cost

Please refer to https://softrack.research.cchmc.org/software/ for current pricing.

Purchase and Install Instructions

To place an order for Matlab software, you must login into the Softrack system. You will need to place a separate request for each system on which you wish to have the software installed.

Mailing list

If you use Matlab, please sign up for the (low-volume) Matlab users mailing list for licensing updates, new toolboxes and other announcements.

Ways to access Matlab at Cincinnati Children's

There are several options to get started:

To install Matlab on your computer (PC or MAC) click Here
Access Matlab on one of our Citrix servers.
Access Matlab on the Linux cluster (e.g., by using the nx client).

More information

Other questions about Matlab?

Send an email to software@bmi.cchmc.org

Need Help?

For technical assistance with other research software, email software@bmi.cchmc.org. For basic desktop support or assistance with clinical information systems, call the Cincinnati Children's Service Desk, 513-636-4100, or visit the Information Services CenterLink site. UC employees should call the UCit Help Desk, 513-556-HELP.

A note about UCit software

UC researchers are served with desktop software by UCIT. In many cases this software is licensed specifically to UC employees only (i.e., people who receive paychecks from UC) or must be run on UC-owned or controlled equipment, making it inaccessible to Cincinnati Children's personnel. Please make sure you read the license agreement carefully before you use UC software.

Faculty and students of UC are eligible to purchase software from UC. However, when purchasing from UC, the license agreement states that the software can be installed only on your personally owned or UC-owned computer and not on machines owned by other institutions. Since Children’s Hospital is a separate entity from UC, installing software purchased from UC on CCHMC owned computers is a violation of that license agreement. There is a difference in the price of software purchased from Biomedical Informatics at Children’s Hospital versus from the UC Bookstore. This difference is because UC qualifies for the educational discount whereas Children’s Hospital does not. Although Cincinnati Children’s Hospital is affiliated with UC, we are not a degree granting institution. We are a hospital, therefore we only qualify for the healthcare/non-profit discount.