Configuring remote kernel for Mathematica - iteloo/formality-tools GitHub Wiki

If you have a local (frontend) machine and a remote machine, both licensed, you can run a notebook on your local machine, but have your expressions evaluated behind-the-scene on the remote machine.

The built-in support for running remote kernels is buggy and very poorly documented. To get my version working, I had to install a package written by Sascha Kratky, which can be downloaded here.

Follow the instruction in init.m to properly set up the package, both on the frontend and the remote machine.

FYI, this is the configuration that worked for my [Amazon EC2 setup](Using Amazon EC2 virtual machines as computational backend):