> There are couple of us in my department would like to promote the use > of SAGE to our students by putting it on a server. Most of them use PC > and it's not totally trivial to have SAGE runs on them. > > Currently, our SAGE is running on a machine which has the power like > those that are used as the cashier machines in supermarkets...
I don't know your specific situation, but at least locally the VM installation on anything which could support a VM with a few GB RAM allocated to it and Sage should be able to handle much of your load. Do you have any computers which could handle that which are available to you? For a long time we just put it on one of our Linux workstations in our semi-official student CS lab, which are dependent on tiny departmental funding. Even for sagenb.org (here I'm quoting William on a previous sage-edu thread), "sagenb.org is also run using a quad-core 2.66Ghz 8GB mac pro, but it is run from a vmware machine running on the mac and that vmware machine has only 2GB allocated to it." That may have been upgraded since then (last December) but it was fine then, and of course you don't need quite that powerful of a machine if that's all it's doing, I imagine. If you don't have access to a machine which can do that, I wonder if there might be some nearly-dead computer on campus which an enterprising student might want to refurbish which could have a minimal Linux installation which could host such a VM, so that you would only have to scavenge parts or get a few off the internet. (If most of your students have access to personal PCs (yes, I realize that is technically redundant but don't blame the messenger), I assume you are in a resource-rich enough part of the world that this is feasible.) If not, I'm as out of ideas as I am of $ but I'm sure someone else will have some thoughts on where to look for funding of this sort of thing! Good luck, - kcrisman --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
