Running matlab in the background

Question

I am running matlab on 48 virtual machines and would like to automate it. I ssh into the machines then use matlab -r matlab_command > outfile.txt & to get t

Answer 1

I found some useful link Tips for Running Large Computations and nohup

nohup nice matlab -nodisplay -nosplash  outfile.txt > 2>dev/null &

maybe this can fix your problem.