Some of your MATLAB application may require more Java Heap Memory than the default. You may want to edit your ~/.matlab/R2017a/matlab.prf. If you do not have it, just create the file
1. Create matlab.prf
$ touch ~/.matlab/R2017a/matlab.prf
2. Increase memory to 36GB
$ vim ~/.matlab/R2017a/matlab.prf
JavaMemHeapMax=I36532
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