On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Dima Pasechnik <[email protected]> wrote: > Here at NTU we'll start next week a semester-long course Experimental Maths, > for our 2nd year majors. > It's going to be lab-based, with 120 people (should I say "w00t" here?) > sitting at the same time for labs (in 2 large computer labs with thin > clients). > We'll be running two (or even four) multiprocessor VMs running Centos Linux > (on VMWare ESX servers on big Intel boxes), to cope with the load. (And of > course the servers will remain running for almost 24/7). > The team consists of Rado, Keshav, your humble servant, one more maths > professor, and 3 more Sage-unaffiliated TAs. > > Apart from the course material (in various stages of readiness), which will > be shared with the world, we have managed > to fix an LDAP-based authentication to the servers, so that the undergrads > log in using their regular university (Active Directory, duh...) accounts. > We'll keep you posted---AFAIK no-one did such a large-scale thing before > using Sage.
Thierry Dumont posted an email to sage-devel in Oct 2008 about a similar thing with possibly 200 students in France. I don't remember how it worked out though. Good luck. > Dima > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-edu" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-edu/-/RWvxfbqEo3kJ. > 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. > -- 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.
