Installing Matlab 2009a on bare metal of one single physical server host

Hello!

I'm so glad Mathworks finally offered a reasonable license option for people like me, i.e., the Home license. I'm a signal processing and machine learning specialist, and still want the tools to keep my skills sharp by being able to continue to use Matlab. Plus, I think its documentation is excellent.

I do my home computing on servers on my home lan. I typically use laptops such as ThinkPads (Linux and Windows) and MacBook Pros (Mac OS X) as "somewhat thin clients" and access all of my heavy computing tasks remotely by logging in to various servers on my home LAN and running the workloads there. My laptops are all far too underpowered to do computationally heavy work.

I would like to do this (common approach) with Matlab too. I believe this complies with the terms of the license because it will only be installed on one host, it will be on the bare metal, and it won't be in a VM. I would like to install Matlab on a Linux server and access it remotely from my thin, local Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X machines, one at a time. In other words, this is still within the spirit of the license.

That's the background. My question is this. Has anybody done this before?

What is the best way of installing Matlab on a server and accessing it remotely using a standard client-server model from one laptop at a time? X11, RDP, VNC?

Is this even possible? Alternatively should I install Windows Server and install Matlab onto that, and then use Windows RDP to access the graphical interface? Thanks!!

Kind regards,

Andrew