On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:02 AM, <calcp...@aol.com> wrote:
> I didn't want to overload sagenb, so I was going to have my students (in
> a new scientific computing lab) download and install Sage next year. But if
> you say its there forever and for student use, all I need to install is
> Mozilla, right?
>
Yes. The reason you might not want to use sagenb.org is that it might still
be too slow for your student's use. That may be an important
consideration to take into account.
If sagenb.org is to slow it is *not* a hardware issue -- we have enough
hardware to support a huge number of users. It's also likely not a
bandwidth issue because Univ of Washington has tons of bandwidth. It's a
software issue:
(1) the notebook server software itself needs to be made more scalable
(2) the notebook server runs using the free VMware server, which is very
limited (e.g., at most 8GB RAM and at most 2 virtual processors).
I will be address both (1) and (2) in October. Regarding (2), I'll probably
switch from vmware to VirtualBox, and (1) will just take a massive amount of
hard work and careful benchmarking.
> We use a dualboot install based on the KNOPPIX DVD and I think they have
> iceweasel.
>
>
Sage should work fine with iceweasel.
>
> *Thanx,
> A. Jorge Garcia
> email
> mailto:calcp...@aol.com <calcp...@aol.com>
> website
> http://calcpage.tripod.com
> weblog
> http://calcpage.tripod.com/shadowfax
>
> Teacher & Professor
> Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science
> Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College*
>
> In a message dated 8/9/2009 1:21:10 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> docfleetw...@gmail.com writes:
>
> It is great to hear (read) that the online site is designed to remain
> indefinitely. I think that is the way I will go with my students.
>
>
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William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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