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I’ve setup, and begun testing on a “large scale”, a virtual machine running the Sage notebook server for use by students, faculty, and staff at UW-Stout. You can try it out if you like, here is the address:

https://sage.uwstout.edu:8000

Anyone can create an account (for now) and run Sage / Python / GAP / Maxima / etc. code through the browser. I’m testing the server in two classes this semester (Calculus & Analytic Geometry I and Modern Algebra I). I’m also trying to get other faculty into the game by leading an active learning type workshop on converting Maple projects to Sage. Here is the first demo of that:

https://sage.uwstout.edu:8000/home/pub/9/

Details: The Sage notebook server is running on brand new hardware, an HP server with 12 cores (24 threads) and 144 GB main memory. We’ve put Debian squeeze and Xen on it and we’re running several virtual machines: three different VMs for WebWork and one for Sage. So far the system is performing great.

Sage as a general purpose web service is about to be unveiled at MathFest. Exciting news.. I was playing around with the beta version which runs on one of University of Washington’s Sage servers. The interface is really nice and it fast (for now!)

More generally, the Single Cell Server code developed by Jason Grout (and others) can be used for GAP, PARI/GP, Python, R, etc..

Can you guess what sequence this is?


1
2
3
2^2
5
2 * 3
7
2^3
3^2
2 * 5
11
2^2 * 3
13
2 * 7
3 * 5
2^4
17
2 * 3^2
19
2^2 * 5
3 * 7
2 * 11
23
2^3 * 3
5^2
2 * 13
3^3
2^2 * 7
29
2 * 3 * 5
31
2^5
3 * 11
2 * 17
5 * 7
2^2 * 3^2
37
2 * 19
3 * 13
2^3 * 5
41
2 * 3 * 7
43
2^2 * 11
3^2 * 5
2 * 23
47
2^4 * 3
7^2
2 * 5^2
3 * 17
2^2 * 13
53
2 * 3^3
5 * 11
2^3 * 7
3 * 19
2 * 29
59
2^2 * 3 * 5
61
2 * 31
3^2 * 7
2^6