The Math Department Sun network has an unlimited multiuser license. Here, the Mathematica kernel resides on the Sun workstation galileo in Bell Hall 215. Sessions by Mathematica users are run in galileo and output is piped to the user's workstation or terminal automatically by starting Mathematica . Each major session requires about 6 MB of memory on galileo . At the present time, this means we would be able to support four major concurrent sessions.
Memory is the major limitation.
Exact arithmetic uses up available memory very quickly. The notebook feature of Mathematica is called up by typing mathematica from any workstation. In a later section, we discuss ways the user may reduce Mathematica 's memory usage when using the notebook feature of Mathematica . In the next section, Making a Subdirectory for Mathematica , we discuss our recommendations and assumptions in starting a Mathematica session in non-notebook mode on The Sun network.