[sage-devel] Re: file system slowdown on sage.math

2007-08-13 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Aug 13, 2007, at 18:51 , William Stein wrote: > > On 8/13/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > dortmund.de> wrote: [snip] > Robert Miller was cleaning up his home directories (we ran out > of disk space yesterday) and ... >8598 pts/16 DN+7:47 rm -rf tmp > The problem is that the direc

[sage-devel] Re: quaddouble in sage, and other floating point issues

2007-08-13 Thread didier deshommes
2007/8/14, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that makes sense. > If I do this: > > sage: a = RQDF(5) > sage: number_of_partitions(1000) > 24061467864032622473692149727991 > sage: del a > > then during the number_of_partitions call the CPU is set to > t

[sage-devel] Re: quaddouble in sage, and other floating point issues

2007-08-13 Thread William Stein
On 8/13/07, didier deshommes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > cdef class RealQuadDoubleField_class(Field): > > """ > > Real Quad Double Field > > """ > > > > def __init__(self): > > fpu_fix_start(self.cwf) > > > > def __dealloc__(self): > > fpu_fix_end(self.cwf) >

[sage-devel] Re: quaddouble in sage, and other floating point issues

2007-08-13 Thread didier deshommes
2007/8/11, Jonathan Bober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > cdef class RealQuadDoubleField_class(Field): > """ > Real Quad Double Field > """ > > def __init__(self): > fpu_fix_start(self.cwf) > > def __dealloc__(self): > fpu_fix_end(self.cwf) > > [etc] > > __dealloc__() i

[sage-devel] Re: quaddouble in sage, and other floating point issues

2007-08-13 Thread Jonathan Bober
> I just tried compiling quad double with the -ffloat-store and with the > fpu fix turned off, and it seems to be working. (The tests are still > running, but a bunch have passed already.) What I didn't realize when I wrote this email is that the tests should only take a few seconds to run. Turn

[sage-devel] Re: build dependencies

2007-08-13 Thread Michael Abshoff
William Stein wrote: > Hello, > I'll wait for the answers to the above questions. I would be fine > with including > scons in SAGE. I think it's already in one of the optional packages > (I can't remember > for sure though). It's just a little python program, after all. > > It would take a

[sage-devel] Re: quaddouble in sage, and other floating point issues

2007-08-13 Thread Jonathan Bober
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 10:25 -0700, cwitty wrote: > On Aug 11, 6:03 pm, Jonathan Bober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have just noticed that using the C type long double from within sage > > doesn't work the way that I've expected it to. > > > > The issue is a little complicated, and other people

[sage-devel] Re: build dependencies

2007-08-13 Thread William Stein
On 8/13/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 13, 6:43 pm, "Joel B. Mohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 13 August 2007 11:57, Martin Albrecht wrote: > > >http://www.scons.org/ > > > > > as build system and Boost > > > > > http://www.boost.org/ > > > > While Scons is ra

[sage-devel] Re: quaddouble in sage, and other floating point issues

2007-08-13 Thread William Stein
On 8/13/07, cwitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (3a)What I think might be the best idea, at least on Linux, is to change > > the compilation settings for quad double so that the fpu fix is not > > needed. There are two ways to do this: If a processor supports sse2, > > then passing gcc -march=wh

[sage-devel] Re: file system slowdown on sage.math

2007-08-13 Thread Michael Abshoff
William Stein wrote: Hello, > > On 8/13/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> I tried rsyncing htdocs to my mirror today and the file system on >> sage.math is very slow (hours+ to rsync a 120MB file and still waiting >> on that one). One oddity I came across is this one process: >> >> rl

[sage-devel] Re: file system slowdown on sage.math

2007-08-13 Thread William Stein
On 8/13/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried rsyncing htdocs to my mirror today and the file system on > sage.math is very slow (hours+ to rsync a 120MB file and still waiting > on that one). One oddity I came across is this one process: > > rlmill8598 1.5 0.0 3852 512 pts/1

[sage-devel] Re: backup

2007-08-13 Thread William Stein
On 8/13/07, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had better take a look at the hg documentation, though I did what > you suggested and it worked fine for both the .py files (I am used to > "cvs commit" and it looks similar). I did not know that I could do a > "commit" without being officia

[sage-devel] file system slowdown on sage.math

2007-08-13 Thread mabshoff
Hello, I tried rsyncing htdocs to my mirror today and the file system on sage.math is very slow (hours+ to rsync a 120MB file and still waiting on that one). One oddity I came across is this one process: rlmill8598 1.5 0.0 3852 512 pts/16 DN+ 09:53 4:09 rm - rf tmp The DN+ indica

[sage-devel] Re: build dependencies

2007-08-13 Thread mabshoff
On Aug 13, 6:43 pm, "Joel B. Mohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 13 August 2007 11:57, Martin Albrecht wrote: > > > > > Hi [sage-devel], Burcin & PolyBori authors, > > > thanks to Burcin Erocal -- a PhD student from Linz, Austria -- first steps > > are made to integrate the PolyBori f

[sage-devel] Re: quaddouble in sage, and other floating point issues

2007-08-13 Thread cwitty
On Aug 11, 6:03 pm, Jonathan Bober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just noticed that using the C type long double from within sage > doesn't work the way that I've expected it to. > > The issue is a little complicated, and other people on this list > probably know more about it than I do, but,

[sage-devel] Re: build dependencies

2007-08-13 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Monday 13 August 2007 11:57, Martin Albrecht wrote: > Hi [sage-devel], Burcin & PolyBori authors, > > thanks to Burcin Erocal -- a PhD student from Linz, Austria -- first steps > are made to integrate the PolyBori framework into SAGE. PolyBori is a > framework for computing in the Boolean Ring

[sage-devel] build dependencies

2007-08-13 Thread Martin Albrecht
Hi [sage-devel], Burcin & PolyBori authors, thanks to Burcin Erocal -- a PhD student from Linz, Austria -- first steps are made to integrate the PolyBori framework into SAGE. PolyBori is a framework for computing in the Boolean Ring F_2[x_1,,x_n]/ using BDDs. More details can be found

[sage-devel] Re: SELinux warnings on sage upgrade

2007-08-13 Thread William Stein
On 8/13/07, Carl Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am running Fedora7 with SELinux in permissive mode, so it will warn > me about suspicious activities, but not block them. I am getting > warning messages about ldconfig trying to access to files with the > default label, default_t. If you hav

[sage-devel] SELinux warnings on sage upgrade

2007-08-13 Thread Carl Meyer
I am running Fedora7 with SELinux in permissive mode, so it will warn me about suspicious activities, but not block them. I am getting warning messages about ldconfig trying to access to files with the default label, default_t. If you have any suggestions how to modify the build scripts to mollify

[sage-devel] Re: Quitting ignored worksheet vs. long computations

2007-08-13 Thread Hamptonio
I agree. I think a big selling point for sage is using the notebook for teaching. A related thing I would love to have someday is the ability to control which users can see which worksheets, in a fine- grained sense. E.g., I would like to be able to assign students to small groups, and have eac

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8

2007-08-13 Thread William Stein
On 8/13/07, Jan Groenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:00:20PM -0700, William Stein wrote: > > I've released sage-2.8. Get it now at http://sagemath.org/ or > > do "sage -upgrade". (Binaries will appear in the near future.) > > I run Ubuntu feisty 7.04, up to d

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8

2007-08-13 Thread William Stein
On 8/13/07, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Upgrade question: I have been editing two .gp scripts (in > data/extcode/pari/simon) and two .py scripts (in > devel/sage-main/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves and > devel/sage-main/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves) with a view to providing > a patch

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8

2007-08-13 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:00:20PM -0700, William Stein wrote: > I've released sage-2.8. Get it now at http://sagemath.org/ or > do "sage -upgrade". (Binaries will appear in the near future.) I run Ubuntu feisty 7.04, up to date from the repositories. sage2.6 and 2.7 all installed with the

[sage-devel] Re: sage-2.8

2007-08-13 Thread John Cremona
Upgrade question: I have been editing two .gp scripts (in data/extcode/pari/simon) and two .py scripts (in devel/sage-main/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves and devel/sage-main/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves) with a view to providing a patch soon. If I do "sage -upgrade" now will those be overwritten?

[sage-devel] Re: side-by-side comparisons

2007-08-13 Thread Chris Chiasson
On Aug 11, 11:46 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be great if people who are fairly knowledgeable about > both SAGE and any of the above systems could add some content. Hint taken. I'll wait until I have expertise in the same areas of SAGE that I have in Mathematica. Of