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Combining the strengths of UMIST andThe Victoria University of Manchester
Access Grid in the UK
John Gordon Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Michael DawManchester Computing
The Current Situation…
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Access Grid in the UK
• About 70 AG nodes
• …and rising!
• E-Science
• Virtual Research Environments
• E-Social Science
• Art
• Teaching
• Seminars, etc.
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Typical Views of Access Grid
Weddings
SeminarSC Global Workshop Performance Arte-Social Science
SC Global
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Access Grid Support Centre
• General support
• IG Pix
• IG Recorder
• Virtual Venue Servers
• Multicast-Unicast Bridges
• QA Tests
• Training
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• 1st & 2nd line support
• For node ops / end-users
• FAQ’s
AGSC – Support
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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
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AGSC – IG Recorder
• Product from inSORS
• Allows recording of AG events
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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.)
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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
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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)
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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
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AGSC – Documentation
• Port usage (Javier Gomez Alonso):http://www.accessgrid.org/agdp/guide/ports.html
• More to come!
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AGSC – Who’s Using It?
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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
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Meeting Memory and the AG
• Memetic – improving the ways we conduct meetings to enable asynchronous collaboration
• http://www.memetic-vre.net
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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
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Contact Details
http://www.sve.man.ac.uk/General/Staff/daw
Research Support Services @ Manchester Computing