[Sugar-devel] Impact of the Sugarizer School Box | Rishabh Nambiar |

[Tony Anderson]

This is exactly how the xsce server works so you may get valuable help 
from that community (xsce or iiab).

A continuing issue is performance of the server in a classroom or 
school. One metric is the number of simultaneous connections the device 
can support (a classroom of 40-60 is not uncommon). Response time to 
requests to the server can be limited by the size of memory, the speed 
of access to the sd card, or the processor speed. I would be very 
interested in the methodology you propose since that process would apply 
equally to the schoolserver.

One issue is to characterize the workload - how often does a user 
request a transaction from the server, what is the time between requests 
(when the user is reading the response to the previous request), how 
much processing is required for a request (e.g. a text search), how much 
information is required to satisfy a request (e.g. size of file 
download). So far as I know no one has attempted this characterization 
for a classroom. This load could be different for Sugarizer than for 
Sugar, but the effort would be valuable in any case).

Tony

On Friday, 02 March, 2018 11:16 PM, Rishabh Nambiar wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> I had a quick chat with Michaël about moving forward with this GSoC 
> project where he mentioned that the impact of the project should be 
> discussed with the community:
>
>
> _http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2018-February/055078.html_
>
> _http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2018-February/055079.html_
>
>
>     *Impact of the Sugarizer School Box*
>
> An instructor walks into a classroom, equipped with a Raspberry Pi 3 
> or Zero W with a pre-installed version of the proposed Sugarizer 
> School Box distribution that Sugar Labs will be working on.
> He/she simply connects the Pi to a power supply and instantly, a local 
> WiFi network is set up, a Sugarizer server session starts 
> automatically and they’re ready to go!
>
> Students can log in to the WiFi AP made by the Pi and visit 
> sugarizer.org (any other fixed url) on their local 
> tablets/laptops/phones. So any computer connected to this WiFi can use 
> the Sugarizer client and any tablet/phone with Sugarizer apps will 
> benefit from the collaboration and backup features on the server. All 
> of these student devices will be served by the Pi Wifi AP.
>
>
>       *Issues*
>
>
>         Processing Power
>
> We’ll have to see how the Pi’s can cope with the load of serving 
> multiple students along with the overhead of running a browser session 
> for a client and the connected display.
> I have a Raspberry Pi B+ and a Pi Zero W at my disposal that I can use 
> to test this so I’ll post the results of combining sugarizer-server 
> and a WiFi AP soon. It should do the job as we will not be having too 
> many students on one Pi.
>
>
>         Network Limitations
>
> It's a straightforward process to set up a local AP for the Pi with 
> the sugarizer-server running but if there is a need for Internet 
> connectivity, then we'll have to set up an Ethernet bridge to make 
> this possible which is also not very complicated.
>
> *UX*
>
> The setup process in a classroom should ideally just be connecting the 
> Pi to a power supply.
> Minor UX features like an auto-redirect to sugarizer.org after 
> connecting to the WiFi AP can be implemented.
>
>
> *If anyone from the community has any opinions or concerns about how 
> any part of the School Box experience should be, then that’d be awesome.*
>
> Regards,
> Rishabh Nambiar.
>
>
>
>
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