What solution is best for you really depends on how much you expect sage will get used. I definitly advise you to have your own sage notebook server running somewhere. And it would be best if that place was accesible from the WWW so student can also use it from home.
(3,4) It would not be a large imposition on computer science since sage can be installed without root acces they can just give you an account and the possibility to run a web service. You or one of your students could then install sage yourself, even installing non standard spkgs as you please. Running the notebook is also not that hard but also involves some coorperation of the CS people since they have to setup dns and other stuff depending on the situation at CS (not a huge ammount of work). The server load will of course depend on how much you expect the server will get used. Here at leiden there we have a dedicated machine (sage.math.leidenuniv.nl) witch has 4 cores running at 2.4 ghz and 8gig of memory wich has been enough to teach two courses in the same semester involving sage both with about 40 participants. If you do not intend to give courses using sage you need way less then what we have, unless you intend to do heavy parallel computations. Maintaining a sage install can be very little work or a lot of work. Depending on wether you have to make a lot of accounts in the notebook for other users. And on how often you want to upgrade. Both of these can be done without root acces if the original installation was not done by root. (7) very easily possible. I've done it even with my macbook pro giving the other people on the same wireless as me acces. Although for your solution you would probably also get a static IP together with an dns record so people can reach it easier. (8) The hardest one, but worth the effort (at least that is the experience with the situation here in leiden). In leiden sage is also usable form the command line on all machines but this is used way less often then the public notebook. People who want the commandline most of the time just install sage on their laptop. -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
