"I am basing it on the assumption that you cant pragmatically do 100 matlab sessions on a single server or VM. While a single Matlab session may run great on a server you are SSHed into, i dont think you can run 100 matlab sessions on a single VM or server without problems. Maybe you can in which case great!" "10,000 simultaneous users on 10 VMs"

Thank you for the response. I appreciate the insights but I do not agree with the premise that 100 or 1,000 Matlab sessions per server or VM is crucial to the economics of the business.

I know many engineering firms who are perfectly happy and profitable to buy a $2,000+ workstation, $2,000 Matlab license, and X*$Y,000 toolboxes for a single engineer. That engineer might be in meetings all day. They might be on vacation, they might not be working on a task that requires Matlab. Larger firms sometimes get floating licenses that may be 10X or more that cost and still have less 100% software utilization.

I see utilization economies both in software and hardware by licensing out this resource to small and mid-size firms who do not have constant large demand and even large firms who need a surge in computation.