I would like to know if someone as used Sage with undergraduate students. My question is mainly a question about the material which would be necessary.
We are currently building a project (this means: asking for money, doing a lot a bureaucracy and so on) on Sage in my University: the idea is to start the replacement of the current commercial system (Maple) by Sage. Nowadays, students use Maple on a network of Windows machines. We would like to make a large Sage server so that all the students use the web interface. I can add to Sage an identification on the ldap server (actually active directory) of the University, and Sage accounts will be created automatically. The more difficult question for us is: which machine? One can expect to have about 200 students using Sage at the same time, with large subgroups of students doing the same thing at the same time. Ok, as it is undergraduate students, they will not make very large computations... But what about the "scalability" of Sage, of the web server? We are currently looking at machines with 2x4 core processors, 32 gb of RAM, 2x450 Gb of disk (raid1). Larger machines exists, but are extremely expensive. We can ask for two machines like this. As anyone some experience in this domain? Yours, t.d.
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