Possible to run matlab frontend on one Linux box, backend on another?

I run Matlab R2013a on a high-end Linux machine from my (not-so-powerful) local Linux box, using ssh -X tol log into the remote machine and then just invoking matlab from the terminal. This works, but sending the X-commands makes the interactive experience painfully slow. Is there a way to run the matlab gui on the local machine and tunnel matlab commands to the remote machine from within matlab? Both run Matlab R2013a on a University license, but are otherwise unrelated to each other.

Answer 1

[José-Luis]

Yes, but not automagically and with significant drawbacks if, like me, you don't know java.