Drake Sage Group

This page documents activities of the Drake University Sage group.

Our initial work is on a single-cell compute server, which basically is a webpage that can execute an arbitrary block of Sage code.

For more information, please contact Jason Grout at jason#[email protected] (replace the # with a .)

03 Feb 2010

Meet in Howard Hall 308 at 2pm (room reserved from 1:30-3, so come early if you want).

Agenda

• Introductions
• What Sage is
• Overview of the simple-db-compute project and its architecture
• Resources

  • DrakeSageGroup webpage

  • Google code repository

  • Sage Notebook mailing list -- subscribe to this

• Installfest--get the simple compute server up and running on as many people's computers as possible

  • install Sage or Python, ipython, mercurial

  • install mongodb

  • install PyMongo and Flask python modules:

    # from within python
    from setuptools.command import easy_install
    easy_install.main(["flask"])
    easy_install.main(["pymongo"])

  • configure mercurial: put this in your ~/.hgrc file

    [ui]
    username = YOUR NAME <YOUR EMAIL>
    
    [extensions]
    record=
    convert=
    hgext.mq=
    hgext.extdiff=
    hgk=
    transplant=
    fetch=

  • Create a Google code account

  • clone my simple-db-compute repository (either just clone it locally, or clone it on google code and then pull from your clone)

• First goal of project
  • familiarize yourself with the simple-db-compute source code
  • add a "compute id" that is returned to the user. The answers page then queries for just that computation's result.
  • add necessary files to get this running on Windows (for example, a .bat file to start mongodb)

  • Look at making the device more parallel/scalable. See multiprocessing, or maybe use the parallel code from Sage.

• Next meeting time