[sage-devel] Re: Denial of Service attack on Sage servers

2009-11-27 Thread kstueve
On Nov 25, 12:34 pm, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: It would appear to me that it would be very easy for a script kiddie to write a a program which created huge numbers of accounts on a Sage server, perform some CPU intensive computation on them, and bring the system to a

[sage-devel] Bug in new sage-spkg?

2009-11-27 Thread Simon King
Hi! When David Joyner tried to install my group cohomology spkg in sage-4.3.alpha0, the package was not downloaded. He reported: jeeves:sage-4.3.alpha0 wdj$ ./sage -i http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/SimonKing/Cohomology/p_group_cohomology-1.2.spkg Installing

Re: [sage-devel] Re: InfinitePolynomialRing is -- very -- slow

2009-11-27 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:42:35PM -0800, Nick Alexander wrote: Two things, mostly. The huge amount of code that wasn't being merged -- that appears to now be merged :) For a good part, that was just an instance of a general issue with Sage's slow review process (and I don't have good

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Test sites for NSF education grant

2009-11-27 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:42:01PM -0800, Rob Beezer wrote: We've been told non-US institutions are possible. Obviously, for logistical reasons, and given the nature of our possible funding, we'll probably favor places in the US that are close to one or more of the main folks on the grant.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Denial of Service attack on Sage servers

2009-11-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
kstueve wrote: On Nov 25, 12:34 pm, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: It would appear to me that it would be very easy for a script kiddie to write a a program which created huge numbers of accounts on a Sage server, perform some CPU intensive computation on them, and bring

[sage-devel] cddlib problems - has anyone contact information?

2009-11-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I've found a couple of relatively minor issues in cddlib-094f, which need reporting upstream. * cddlib 094f fails to build with Sun Studio - fabs() unresolved. Probably needs -lm http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7067 * On HP-UX I had problems building mpfr, but just kept trying

[sage-devel] Security issues in gnutls-2.2.1

2009-11-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
There are a couple of issues with gnutls-2.2.1 which I reported to the gnutls-de...@gnu.org mailing list. They advise me that we should not be using 2.2.1, as there are security issues with this release. I've made fixing the security issues a ticket http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7542

[sage-devel] Build logs

2009-11-27 Thread Pat LeSmithe
Part of the outline at http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageTasks is about build logs: * Separate file for each spkg for parallel builds. * Group by install, upgrade, or spkg install event. * Remotely aggregate and display refreshed statistics. Thoughts? Suggestions? Implementations?

[sage-devel] Build logs

2009-11-27 Thread Pat LeSmithe
Part of the outline at http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageTasks is about build logs: * Separate file for each spkg for parallel builds. * Group by install, upgrade, or spkg install event. * Remotely aggregate and display refreshed statistics. Thoughts? Suggestions? Implementations?

[sage-devel] Implementation of Graphs, c_graphs, and NetworkX

2009-11-27 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hello everybody !!! Reviewing patch #7533, Rob Beezer noticed that the Graph function to compute the distances between all the pairs of vertices in a Graph ( shortest_path_all_pairs(), written in Python ) is much slower than computing independently the distances between all the pairs of vertices

[sage-devel] Re: Implementation of Graphs, c_graphs, and NetworkX

2009-11-27 Thread YannLC
No answer to the main question, but just completing the timings: sage: G=graphs.RandomGNP(300,.1) sage: time d=[G.distance(i,j) for (i,j) in Subsets(G.vertices(),2)] CPU times: user 3.67 s, sys: 0.00 s, total: 3.67 s Wall time: 3.72 s sage: time d=networkx.all_pairs_shortest_path(G) CPU times:

[sage-devel] Sparse numerical matrices

2009-11-27 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
I need a convenient matrix class for some numerical work. SciPy doesn't accept GPL code and besides I heavily dislike the NumPy matrix class. So why not put my efforts into improving Sage (or at least write something Sage-compatible for myself)... In particular I need to Cholesky-factor

Re: [sage-devel] Sparse numerical matrices

2009-11-27 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: I need a convenient matrix class for some numerical work. SciPy doesn't accept GPL code and besides I heavily dislike the NumPy matrix class. So why not put my efforts into improving Sage (or at least write something Sage-compatible for myself)... In

[sage-devel] Re: Implementation of Graphs, c_graphs, and NetworkX

2009-11-27 Thread YannLC
You can obtain some c_grah in Sage with cG = G.copy(implementation=c_graph) I don't know how far the development is though. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more

Re: [sage-devel] Bug in new sage-spkg?

2009-11-27 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Simon, On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Simon King simon.k...@nuigalway.ie wrote: SNIP Is it with intention (i.e., are people supposed to manually download the spkg first, and then do sage -i), or is it a bug? First, let's discuss what is (to me at least) the expected behaviour when one

[sage-devel] Re: sage and nfs

2009-11-27 Thread Harald Schilly
On Nov 27, 8:51 am, Jan Groenewald j...@aims.ac.za wrote: Recently it had problems when 50 users were already on and then a group of 54 students walked into a lab and logged on simutlaneously to start sage. Well, it still might be interesting to check what sage does in the .sage dir. Does it

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage and nfs

2009-11-27 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:01:51AM -0800, Harald Schilly wrote: On Nov 27, 8:51 am, Jan Groenewald j...@aims.ac.za wrote: Recently it had problems when 50 users were already on and then a group of 54 students walked into a lab and logged on simutlaneously to start sage. Well, it

[sage-devel] Re: cddlib problems - has anyone contact information?

2009-11-27 Thread mhampton
We have never had success in contacting Komei Fukuda, who should be the official contact for cddlib. I don't understand why he has never responded. He did just update his ETH webpage, so perhaps its worth trying again (I think he may have had a visiting position somewhere for a while, but I'm

Re: [sage-devel] Build logs

2009-11-27 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Pat LeSmithe qed...@gmail.com wrote: Part of the outline at http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageTasks is about build logs:    * Separate file for each spkg for parallel builds.    * Group by install, upgrade, or spkg install event.    * Remotely aggregate and

[sage-devel] Re:sage and nfs

2009-11-27 Thread Pablo Angulo
My colleague discovered that the plain hard disk read speed was very low due to a configuration problem. This has sped up the transmission a lot! We'll test the system the next day a lot of students log in at once and report back. So you were right, Jan, the server was the place to look. You've

[sage-devel] Error on building Sage on a Gentoo box

2009-11-27 Thread roelof
Hello, Im trying to make Sage working on a gentoo box but it fails here : Thread model: posix gcc version 4.3.4 (Gentoo 4.3.4 p1.0, pie-10.1.5) checking build system type... k8-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type...

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Printing...

2009-11-27 Thread Florent Hivert
Hi Jason ! The patch is already done and waiting on trac for several months: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1918 Excellent ! You just have to update a bunch of doctests and review the patch! I was ready to do that, unfortunately, that not the problem here. There seems to

[sage-devel] Re: Build logs

2009-11-27 Thread Ben Goodrich
On Nov 27, 12:50 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder what Gentoo, Debian, etc., do?  Do they do anything, or just leave the output of logging to the user. William Do you mean this? https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=sagemath -- To post to this group, send an email to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage program icons

2009-11-27 Thread Ivan Andrus
On Nov 27, 2009, at 12:22 AM, Harald Schilly wrote: On Nov 26, 10:13 pm, Christopher Olah christopherolah...@gmail.com wrote: That's awesome. Thanks ;) The 16x16 one looks ugly, but that's no wonder. But the svg one and since I know they are maybe a bit larger, I also thought about some

[sage-devel] Re: [Polybori-discuss] Portability issue - GNU specific options sent to non-GNU compiler

2009-11-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Alexander Dreyer wrote: Dear Dave, Hi Alexander thank you, for pointing out that this issue is not resolved in Sage. I thought, these things were resolved, because we were discussing similar issues within another thread. The previous issue observed in Sage with PolyBoRi picking up the wrong

Re: [sage-devel] Error on building Sage on a Gentoo box

2009-11-27 Thread François Bissey
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:14:56 roelof wrote: Hello, Im trying to make Sage working on a gentoo box but it fails here : Thread model: posix gcc version 4.3.4 (Gentoo 4.3.4 p1.0, pie-10.1.5) checking build system type...

Re: [sage-devel] Build logs

2009-11-27 Thread François Bissey
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:50:37 William Stein wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Pat LeSmithe qed...@gmail.com wrote: Part of the outline at http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageTasks is about build logs: * Separate file for each spkg for parallel builds. * Group by install,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: [Polybori-discuss] Portability issue - GNU specific options sent to non-GNU compiler

2009-11-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: The Sun equivalent of -fPIC, is usually -KPIC, though I think that is different on 64-bit platforms. It is also different on other platforms too. Of course, any modern Sun is 64-bit. What I mean is that I believe the correct flag to produce position independent

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Denial of Service attack on Sage servers

2009-11-27 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Nov 27, 2009, at 5:10 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: kstueve wrote: On Nov 25, 12:34 pm, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: It would appear to me that it would be very easy for a script kiddie to write a a program which created huge numbers of accounts on a Sage server,

Re: [sage-devel] Error on building Sage on a Gentoo box

2009-11-27 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:57 PM, François Bissey f.r.bis...@massey.ac.nz wrote: On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:14:56 roelof wrote: Hello, Im trying to make Sage working on a gentoo box but it fails here : Thread model: posix gcc version 4.3.4 (Gentoo 4.3.4 p1.0, pie-10.1.5)

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Build logs

2009-11-27 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Ben Goodrich goodrich@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 27, 12:50 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder what Gentoo, Debian, etc., do?  Do they do anything, or just leave the output of logging to the user. William Do you mean this?

Re: [sage-devel] Sparse numerical matrices

2009-11-27 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn da...@student.matnat.uio.no wrote: I need a convenient matrix class for some numerical work. SciPy doesn't accept GPL code and besides I heavily dislike the NumPy matrix class. So why not put my efforts into improving Sage (or at least write

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Printing...

2009-11-27 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Florent Hivert florent.hiv...@univ-rouen.fr wrote:      Hi Jason ! The patch is already done and waiting on trac for several months: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1918 Excellent ! You just have to update a bunch of doctests and review the

Re: [sage-devel] Error on building Sage on a Gentoo box

2009-11-27 Thread François Bissey
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:56:02 William Stein wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:57 PM, François Bissey f.r.bis...@massey.ac.nz wrote: On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:14:56 roelof wrote: Hello, Im trying to make Sage working on a gentoo box but it fails here : Thread model: posix gcc version

[sage-devel] Re: Graphical Physics Program Suggestions

2009-11-27 Thread kstueve
I need help integrating a Python/Cython program (calculation/ simulation) with Java (GUI front-end with Swing, mouselistener, animating graphics). If anyone has experience integrating different languages with Sage and the notebook, experience combining Python (and Cython/C) with other languages,

Re: [sage-devel] Sparse numerical matrices

2009-11-27 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
William Stein wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn da...@student.matnat.uio.no wrote: I need a convenient matrix class for some numerical work. SciPy doesn't accept GPL code and besides I heavily dislike the NumPy matrix class. So why not put my efforts into improving

Re: [sage-devel] Sparse numerical matrices

2009-11-27 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn da...@student.matnat.uio.no wrote: William Stein wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn da...@student.matnat.uio.no wrote: I need a convenient matrix class for some numerical work. SciPy doesn't accept GPL code and