On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:12 AM, leso...@googlemail.com <leso...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > At my institution we are thinking of using Sage in our teaching. We > would like to install it on a server, so that the students may use it, > either from home or from the computer labs at the university during > programmed activities. My question is the following: what are the > minimum resources (memory, processor(s), ...) we may need in order to > run Sage for a maximum of, say, 500 users (normally, students doing > straightforward computations) at the same time?
Appropriately configured (with >=32GB RAM), one of these boxes should easily be able to do that (they have 24 cores and up to 128 GB RAM): http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4450/index.xml Sun often gives good academic discounts. I recently bought four x4450's and am very pleased with them. To server 500 students at once, I would probably run something like 20 completely separate Sage notebook servers in 20 separate vmware virtual machines (those could all run on one single x4450 at once). That said, I've never personally heard of anybody running a sage notebook server with 500 people using it at once from a single machine. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
