> Yesterday I setup this server as a brand new notebook server > instance:http://480.sagenb.org/. It's running on exactly the same VMware > virtual machine as sagenb.org (so 8GB RAM and two virtual processers). > It's literally the *same* machine, not just a copy of it. I then > had over 30 students in a big lab of 100% Windows PC's simultaneously > all create accounts on the 480.sagenb.org and then all at once *use* > 480.sagenb.org to do arithmetic, plotting, linear algebra worksheets, > etc. Amazingly everything worked fine, the server didn't crash or > even seem to slow down noticeably. I noticed that some of the > students used Internet Explorer and weren't dead in the water (though > I told them to use Firefox). One of the main questions they had was > whether the web version of Sage was crippled compared to the local > version, and when I told them it wasn't they were happy -- I guess > students are often used to crippled web versions of local apps. > > Anyway, I was actually very surprised that the sage notebook server > could stand up to this load.
That's great news. Thanks for doing this test. Of course, the 8GB probably helped :) but that is very interesting. I know this is somewhat OT, but did any of the students using IE attempt an interact, or just commands? - kcrisman --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
