Here at NTU we'll start next week a semester-long course Experimental Maths, for our 2nd year majors. It's going to be lab-based, with 120 people (should I say "w00t" here?) sitting at the same time for labs (in 2 large computer labs with thin clients). We'll be running two (or even four) multiprocessor VMs running Centos Linux (on VMWare ESX servers on big Intel boxes), to cope with the load. (And of course the servers will remain running for almost 24/7).
The team consists of Rado, Keshav, your humble servant, one more maths professor, and 3 more Sage-unaffiliated TAs. Apart from the course material (in various stages of readiness), which will be shared with the world, we have managed to fix an LDAP-based authentication to the servers, so that the undergrads log in using their regular university (Active Directory, duh...) accounts. We'll keep you posted---AFAIK no-one did such a large-scale thing before using Sage. Dima -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-edu/-/RWvxfbqEo3kJ. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en.
