What You will need (if you have a windows machine)

Cygwin installation

You can run the installer directly of the net
You will be asked to:
- choose a mirror site to run the installation from
- choose an installation path (your root directory) on your machine
- choose a directory for the installer to download temporary files at its called "local package directory" default choices will work for the above
- choose a mirror site in US to download packages from
You will be asked to select packages. Go with the default and do the following
- expand (+) X11 and select xorg-x11-base, WindowMaker. Bunch of other stuff will get selected automatically
- expand (+) net and select open-ssh . Again some other stuff will get selected
- click next for installation, it will take a while to install
Once installed with the startup icon on your desktop, double clicking it will open a terminal. Type startx. That will open a window with a terminal

In the terminal that cygwin opened, use ssh to connect to an lrc machine

$) ssh -X "yourlogin name"@"lrc machine name".ece.utexas.edu

for instance i would type: ssh -X sreangsu@linux04.ece.utexas.edu

After you have logged in you have to enter

$) module load matlab

$) matlab

The matlab window whould open up. In case module command does not work, type

$) resetenv

and follow the instructions to fix your environment variables and then restart matlab as above.

If you use the gui of matlab, it is going to be slooow. Using lbx might speed things up, your milage will vary. On the Lrc machine, type:

$) lbxproxy

It will respond with a port number (say its 42). Then type

$) export $DISPLAY="lrc machine name".ece.utexas.edu:42

$) xhost + "lrc machine name".ece.utexas.edu

then start up matlab as before.