On 18 Oct, 15:38, Chris Seberino <cseber...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wolfram Alpha is a low bandwidth portal into Mathematica that doesn't > provide the full notebook interface.
It's not in Wolfram Research's interst to make the full power of Mathematica available to anyone for free. If they did, their sales of Mathematica would drop dramatically. > Does something like this exist for Sage? It seems it would be > valuable marketing wise because it is even easier to try that than the > freely available notebook interfaces. The free public notebook > servers are often bogged down with lots of users. Is it really true that the public access servers are often bogged down with lots of users? Try http://t2nb.math.washington.edu:8000/ it's not very fast, but is not bogged down with many users either. I can't imagine there would be much enthusiasm for maintaining a cut- down version of the notebook by Sage developers. > I'm guessing Wolfram Alpha interface would be able to support more > users? > > cs I don't know, but I suspect Wolfram Alpha is designed properly and will be able to support more users by adding computational power to it. The amount of CPU time that a computation can use is limited, so I doubt there is any need to split a computation across several systems for increased performance. So servers don't need to communicate with each other. Adding the power to handle more users with Wolfram Alpha would appear to me to be quite trivial, but I don't know for sure. Dave Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
