Re: relax in the cloud ? -- November 23, 2015 - 11:58

Have also a look here:

https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/deploying-jupyterhub-for-education/

2015-11-23 11:56 GMT+01:00 Troels Emtekær Linnet <tlinnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi Edward.
>
> Sagemath use Jupyter (as far as I know)
> http://jupyter.org/
> https://try.jupyter.org/
>
> This could potentially "kill" the GUI in relax, and make everything
> go through the browser. Even for local installations.
> This should also eliminate all the GUI problems between mac, linux and
> windows.
>
> But this is a big re-write and a big design change decission.
>
> relax could be called through a ipython notebook.
> And the output of results should be viewed in the browser.
>
> This will be an extremely powerful expansion.
> And users can write "notebooks" on the analysis development.
>
> Best
> Troels
>
>
> 2015-11-23 11:24 GMT+01:00 Edward d'Auvergne <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > On 23 November 2015 at 10:08, Troels Emtekær Linnet
> > <tlinnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi Edward.
> > >
> > > I have happily used:
> > > http://www.sagemath.org/
> > > https://cloud.sagemath.com/
> > >
> > > in some teaching of python.
> > >
> > > The benefits are well explained here:
> > > http://www.sagemath.org/library-why.html
> > >
> > > sagemath solves all dependencies and the student are "ready" to go from
> > the
> > > start.
> > >
> > > William Stein has done a very beautiful job.
> > > http://wstein.org/
> > >
> > > Then I was wondering if relax should establish a "try-out" in the cloud?
> > >
> > > Code and installation
> > > http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/
> > > https://github.com/sagemath/sage
> > >
> > > The prizing for the cloud service is here:
> > > https://cloud.sagemath.com/policies/pricing.html
> > >
> > > That is a little spicy.
> > >
> > > An optimal solution would be to find some scientific servers, which we
> > > could talk into this.
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> >
> > Hi Troels,
> >
> > I was thinking about this quite a while ago, and was hoping that the
> > Bio-NMR initiative would go somewhere (http://www.bio-nmr.net/).
> > There were ideas of providing a full and freely available web service
> > with all NMR software - WeNMR (http://www.wenmr.eu).  This was
> > supposed to be the web service, but it is more a window to individual
> > web services.  Anyway, the WeNMR concept might be the most ideal way
> > to go.  So maybe we could talk to them about it.  Maybe they have the
> > required infrastructure for hosting a relax web service.
> >
> > However I'm wondering if, for this, we need to develop the last of the
> > planned UIs - the Web UI?  To have the same power as the GUI, we would
> > need to use very advanced web technologies, just as Sage Math Cloud is
> > using.  Do you know what web toolkit they use?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Edward