The Math::Matlab package provides an interface for running Matlab programs from Perl and capturing the output (what the Matlab program prints to STDOUT) into a string. For more information on Matlab see The MathWorks web-site at http://www.mathworks.com/.
Math::Matlab, the base class, provides the interface which is then implemented by a number of sub-classes. Math::Matlab::Local is the simplest such sub-class which requires that a Matlab executeable be available on the machine running the Perl program.
Math::Matlab::Remote is a sub-class which passes the execution request on to a Server (implemented using the mod_perl handler in Math::Matlab::Server).
Math::Matlab::Pool is a sub-class which simply passes on the execution request to another Math::Matlab object, selected sequentially from a list (round-robin). Syncronization is done via file-locking to ensure that multiple Perl processes using the same Pool configuration will distribute execution requests sequentially to the members of the pool.
Note: This package require the Test::More module available as part of the Test-Simple package on CPAN and included in perl-5.8.0 (and probably later) for running the tests.
Copyright (c) 2002 PSERC. All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Ray Zimmerman, <rz10@cornell.edu>
$Id: README,v 1.3 2002/11/01 20:51:04 ray Exp $