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topic started 7/26/2002; 8:08:01 AM
last post 7/27/2002; 4:47:08 AM

$user$ John Jones - New hardware at ASU $blueArrow$
7/26/2002; 8:08:01 AM (reads: 1111, responses: 1)

Hi,

For the list of hardware running WeBWorK, ASU just bought a WeBWorK server with two P4 xenon 2.2GHz processors, 1GB RAM, two 36 GB scsi hard drives with RAID mirroring.

We will start with around 300 students on this machine this fall (around 40 students per section), and expect it to ultimately handle 3000 students per term.

We use slackware linux. The main idiosyncracies with slackware are that you do have to recompile perl (older slackware provided perl with gdbm support, but not any more); installing GD.pm requires libgd, which is a hassle to compile since you have to both add and subtract things from the variable definitions in the makefile. Also, few things are where WeBWorK expects it (perl, latex and friends, and latex2html) but the installation process provides for changing these.

For the list of links to WeBWorK courses around the country, the one for ASU should now point to

http://webwork.asu.edu

John

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$user$ Bill Ziemer - Re: New hardware at ASU $blueArrow$
7/27/2002; 4:47:08 AM (reads: 1423, responses: 0)

I have just finished the first beta version of a script to do the Webwork infrastructure installation: perl, apache, and Latex2Html. The script takes care of dependencies with GD, gd, netpbm, libnet, libwww, URI, MD5, zlib, libpng, HTML-Parser, HTML-Tagset, ghostscript, and some other options such as jpeg support. I will post it when it is stable. --Bill

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