Yes, I'm in a resource rich part of the world which is also in a nearly bankrupt state.
Anyhow, the machine in which SAGE is running on is about 8 years ago... only 5 MB ram. We can't even buy RAM that add onto it. The new type of RAM doesn't fit... I'm sure, we can get almost everything from the internet... but one probably would ask: is it worth doing so. Anyway, I just throw it out and see if I can get any tips on my situation. Thanks for the reply. On Apr 22, 5:38 pm, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
