> I'm teaching a new cohort of students this year and was hoping to give > them a quick SAGE tutorial. Our IT guys have not been able to setup a > SAGE server in time so I was wondering how stable sagenb is. Is it > realistic to run a 90 minute lab session (tops) with about 40 odd > students each logged in to sagenb?
AFAIK, sagenb would most probably (if not certainly) not support that many people -administrators of sagenb would of course be more knowledgeable. Actually, your situation is a recurring issue on this list and people are always advised to set up their own server. You can do a quick search in the archives for various tips. I personally had set up a server following these instructions within an hour: http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageServer Another approach: http://wiki.sagemath.org/DanDrake/JustEnoughSageServer Most important hardware concern is about RAM: A single instance of Sage worksheet seems to occupy ~90MB (version 4.7.1); so, assuming that each student work on his/her own worksheet, you would need about 5GB of RAM for 40 people. Also security may be another important concern, as you would likely want the server to be reachable. See also: http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sagenb/notebook/notebook_object.html Regards, Berkin -- 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-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
