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Access Grid in the UK

Access Grid in the UK. The Current Situation…. John Gordon Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Michael Daw Manchester Computing. Access Grid in the UK. About 70 AG nodes …and rising! E-Science Virtual Research Environments E-Social Science Art Teaching Seminars, etc. Weddings.

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Access Grid in the UK

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  1. Access Grid in the UK The Current Situation… John Gordon Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Michael Daw Manchester Computing

  2. Access Grid in the UK • About 70 AG nodes • …and rising! • E-Science • Virtual Research Environments • E-Social Science • Art • Teaching • Seminars, etc.

  3. Weddings SC Global Typical Views of Access Grid Seminar SC Global Workshop e-Social Science Performance Art

  4. Access Grid Support Centre • General support • IG Pix • IG Recorder • Virtual Venue Servers • Multicast-Unicast Bridges • QA Tests • Training

  5. AGSC – Support • 1st & 2nd line support • For node ops / end-users • FAQ’s

  6. AGSC – IG Pix • Product from inSORS • Allows shared presentations • Slides viewed via web browser • No need for specialist client software • No need to distribute files beforehand • Available free to registered users

  7. AGSC – IG Recorder • Product from inSORS • Allows recording of AG events

  8. AGSC – Virtual Venue Servers • InSORS: • All original venues (Full Sail, Bridgeport, etc.) • All UK institutional venues • AGSC-specific venues • Any venue you want! • AG2: • Same venues as inSORS VVS • UK e-Science X.509 certificates (or regular AG certs) • Can set up secure venues (based on DN) for your group • All the features of AG2 (shared docs, shared apps, etc.)

  9. AGSC – Multicast-Unicast Bridges • InSORS – for reliability • AG2 bridge – for AG2 users • rcBridge (originally written by ANU Internet Futures, adapted by Manchester) – especially good for low bandwidth connectivity • staticBridge (written by Andrew Rowley, Manchester) – for users behind firewalls

  10. AGSC – QA Tests • Aim: to improve the AG experience for users • Audio • Echo • General quality • Video • General quality • Picture construction • Networking • Multicast • Use of beacons • Collaborative software • IG Pix • VNC • Text chat (Jabber)

  11. AGSC – Training • July 2005: • “So you want to have an Access Grid ?” • “Access Grid Research & Development” • “The Access Grid Support Centre” • “QA Tests & Node Maintenance” • “Node operation” • “Advanced Audio” • “Collaborative Visualization” (by Brian Corrie, SFU, Canada) • Next workshop: January 2006

  12. AGSC – Documentation • Port usage (Javier Gomez Alonso):http://www.accessgrid.org/agdp/guide/ports.html • More to come!

  13. AGSC – Who’s Using It?

  14. Maths Teaching over the AG • DTAGMATHS – teaching Maths to school children in deprived areas using the AG • InSORS have given us financial support to enable us to do this • http://www.sve.man.ac.uk/Research/AtoZ/DTAGMATHS

  15. Meeting Memory and the AG • Memetic – improving the ways we conduct meetings to enable asynchronous collaboration • http://www.memetic-vre.net

  16. CSAGE • Collaborative Stereoscopic Access Grid Environment • Build extensions to the AG to enable full-sized stereo viewing • E.g. for collaborative dance… • http://kato.mvc.mcc.ac.uk/sve-wiki/SAGE

  17. Research Support Services @ Manchester Computing Contact Details http://www.sve.man.ac.uk/General/Staff/daw michael.daw@manchester.ac.uk

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