Re: [seul-edu] [Fwd: WIMS, a web math educational software for Linux]

["malonowa" <malonowa@wanadoo.fr>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Jan Hlavacek <jhlavacek@sf.edu>
To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
Sent: mardi 16 mai 2000 19:34
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] [Fwd: WIMS, a web math educational software for
Linux]


> On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 04:00:39AM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> > On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 10:48:33AM -0500, Jan Hlavacek wrote:
> > > Debian Slink system.  I have VERY limited resources, our campus is all
> > > Microsoft,  as far as I can tell, the only Linux machine on campus is
my
> > > desktop computer, a 120MHz pentium with 16MB of memory, and almost
full
> > > harddisk,  but WIMS run on that.  I will have to play with it some
more
> >
> > do the people with 'limited resources' have sufficient bandwidth that it
> > would be useful if seul set up a publically available server that people
> > from various schools could use?
>
> I believe that could be very useful.  People can always use the main
> server, but having a server in US dedicated to WIMS and publicly
> available would be nice.  I think it would also take some load off the
> main server at unice.
>
> I think that lot of cases of 'limited resources' are actually 'limited
> Linux resources'.  That is certainly my case.  Our students actually
> have fairly fast internet connection,  but I don't have the Linux
> server, at least not a Linux server which would be powerful enough.
> Although WIMS may actually be the final argument I need to convince our
> administration that we should invest some money into one good strong
> Linux server.  Right now I can have all the old junk I can find sitting
> around here,  but all my attempts to get a hold of something more
> powerful so far failed miserably.
>
> Maybe I will try to look into a "distributed" approach:  run apache on
> one 486, ghostscript on another, gp/pari and gnuplot on third and
> povray on fourth.
>
I wouldn't run povray on a 486 - you need fast fp processing. However, there
is a pvm version of pov so if you had a few 486's then I hear it's not so
bad with a little 486 beowulf cluster.

Roman.