mabshoff a écrit : > On Oct 29, 7:12 am, Thierry Dumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > >> With some colleagues in our University (Lyon, France) we have built a >> project around Sage for undergraduate students... And the University has >> decided to support this project. Good news. > > Great news indeed. > >> We will have enough money to by 3 servers, each one with 32 Mb of >> memory, 2x4 core (hopefully: the price of machines is turning >> stochastic, nowadays). > > I assume 32 GB :)
yes :-) > >> Now we will be facing the problem to build a sage configuration which >> will work for say ,200 students at the same time (students will use the >> notebook), and prepare professors to Sage teaching. There are "some" >> technical problems to solve like: >> -OpenLdap identification (this works) >> -sharing the sage personal folders... >> -and may be many other problems... > > Please let us know about any scalability or other problems you run > into. I see that some sort of ldap authentication patch made it into > trac, so hopefully that one will get merged sooner than later. > I have posted in July something about this. It works, but it must be improved.... and the University uses a fake ldap, known as Active Directory (known by some people), and so, we must add support to kerberos... Concerning the integration in a future release of Sage, if we want Sage to remain as stand alone as possible, we will need to incorporate the OpenLdap libs (source) in the Sage tree. What I did (the patch to the notebook) is in http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/~tdumont/sage >> May be I'll post very often here :-) >> >> As far as I know, this is the first time that such experience is >> conducted, at this scale, in a french university. >> >> t.d. > > Cheers, > > Michael > >> -----~--~--- >
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