I should have added that there are some other testing notebook
servers, e.g., http://demo.sagenb.org that are barely used.  If
sagenb.org is slow you can use those.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:39 AM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:31 AM, D.C. Ernst <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I had my Calculus II students working on an Introduction to Sage lab
>> today.  We didn't have access to a computer lab today, so a few of
>> them brought laptops.  I had them working in groups and the first
>> thing they were supposed to do was create a sagenb account.  One
>
> I improved sagenb.org so it could be used by more people effectively.
> Now there are 25,000 accounts.
> It's getting hammered pretty hard, especially during day hours.  E.g.,
> I just looked at the log of people
> doing stuff a few seconds ago (everything below is during 1 *second*):
>
>  2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88390,127.0.0.1] User
> 'codyrude' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88445,127.0.0.1] User 'cmullan'
> logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88532,127.0.0.1] User 'ekuest'
> logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88495,127.0.0.1] User 'ajaeger'
> logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88415,127.0.0.1] User 'ribet' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88497,127.0.0.1] User 'hnakao' logged 
> in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88444,127.0.0.1] User 'koyama' logged 
> in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88200,127.0.0.1] User 'parlar' logged 
> in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88576,127.0.0.1] User
> 'i_grivell' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88578,127.0.0.1] User 'wangwh' logged 
> in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88204,127.0.0.1] User 'ekuest' logged 
> in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88404,127.0.0.1] User 'hebites' logged 
> in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88448,127.0.0.1] User 'daldrich'
> logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88585,127.0.0.1] User
> 'dinolorenzini' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88449,127.0.0.1] User 'daldrich'
> logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88411,127.0.0.1] User
> 'xroywadex' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88524,127.0.0.1] User 'scofield'
> logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88441,127.0.0.1] User 'penalosa'
> logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88081,127.0.0.1] User
> 'GonzaloOrellana' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88191,127.0.0.1] User 'penalosa'
> logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88406,127.0.0.1] User 'xime' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88536,127.0.0.1] User 'coringa' logged 
> in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88514,127.0.0.1] User
> 'MathematicsForCG' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88534,127.0.0.1] User 'scofield'
> logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88447,127.0.0.1] User 'coringa' logged 
> in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88281,127.0.0.1] User
> 'Allhopeforhumanity' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88318,127.0.0.1] User 'penalosa'
> logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88450,127.0.0.1] User
> 'MathematicsForCG' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88084,127.0.0.1] User 'DerKeil' logged 
> in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88583,128.95.224.68] User
> 'wstein' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88431,127.0.0.1] User 'ajaeger' logged 
> in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88270,127.0.0.1] User 'xarles' logged 
> in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88142,127.0.0.1] User 'ethan' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88275,127.0.0.1] User
> '[email protected]' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88507,127.0.0.1] User 'scofield'
> logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88101,127.0.0.1] User
> 'dinolorenzini' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88278,127.0.0.1] User
> 'GonzaloOrellana' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88405,127.0.0.1] User 'DerKeil' logged 
> in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88202,127.0.0.1] User
> 'CrystalPegasus' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88296,127.0.0.1] User
> 'xturner221x' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88353,127.0.0.1] User
> 'math_in_maine' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88424,127.0.0.1] User 'j.tworek'
> logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88496,127.0.0.1] User 'hnakao' logged 
> in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88080,127.0.0.1] User 'rafarob' logged 
> in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88387,127.0.0.1] User
> 'xturner221x' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88575,127.0.0.1] User 'ajaeger' logged 
> in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88451,127.0.0.1] User
> 'CrystalPegasus' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88586,127.0.0.1] User
> 'dinolorenzini' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88442,127.0.0.1] User 'ebodine' logged 
> in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88429,127.0.0.1] User 'penalosa'
> logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88409,127.0.0.1] User
> 'dinolorenzini' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88352,127.0.0.1] User
> 'hairybill' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88518,127.0.0.1] User
> 'xroywadex' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88283,127.0.0.1] User 'coringa' logged 
> in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88525,127.0.0.1] User
> '[email protected]' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88274,127.0.0.1] User 'scofield'
> logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88492,127.0.0.1] User 'penalosa'
> logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88397,127.0.0.1] User 'kkulesza'
> logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:03-0800 [HTTPChannel,88535,127.0.0.1] User 'compmath'
> logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:04-0800 [HTTPChannel,88528,127.0.0.1] User
> 'MathematicsForCG' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:04-0800 [HTTPChannel,88508,127.0.0.1] User
> 'mattwanless2' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:04-0800 [HTTPChannel,88446,127.0.0.1] User
> 'dinolorenzini' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:04-0800 [HTTPChannel,88440,127.0.0.1] User 'rafarob' logged 
> in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:04-0800 [HTTPChannel,88502,127.0.0.1] User
> 'dinolorenzini' logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:04-0800 [HTTPChannel,88529,127.0.0.1] User 'penalosa'
> logged in.
> 2010-02-12 08:37:04-0800 [HTTPChannel,88408,127.0.0.1] User
> 'Allhopeforhumanity' logged in.
>
> I will have to do further work and profiling to scale the notebook to
> work robustly for even more users.
> Note that the bottleneck at this point has nothing to do with the
> hardware or network -- it's entirely a software/programming problem.
> I'll work on this during the spring quarter (paid for by Univ of
> Washington).
>
> William
>
>
>> student would create an account, then log out, then hand the laptop to
>> the next student in the group to create an account.  There were
>> several headaches that followed.  We got lots of "proxy" errors that I
>> had never encountered myself, quite a few "cookie incidents", and
>> timeout issues which were related to the wireless in the room.  It
>> wasn't the best first introduction to Sage, but hopefully my
>> overwhelming excitement about Sage counteracted any frustration.
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> William Stein
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washington
> http://wstein.org
>



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University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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