On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:18 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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? >
No, since we didn't get to interact yet during the tutorial. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
