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Combining the strengths of UMIST andThe Victoria University of Manchester
The Access Grid Support Centre
Aims, Activities, Leadership
Michael DawCollaborative Working DevelopmentsManchester Computing
28 November 2006
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Aims of this Talk
• Overview of AGSC
• Provide context for UK AG
• Show current trends
• Future activities
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Origins
• October 2002 – report: “Multi-Site Videoconferencing for the e-Science Programme”
• http://www.nesc.ac.uk/technical_papers/UKeS-2002-04.html
• Support Centre to: “…assure quality across sites…”
• April 2004 – AGSC @ Manchester
• Funded by JISC, managed by UKERNA
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Aims of AGSC
• Improve quality
• Improve interoperability between AG2, inSORS, vic/rat, VRVS, etc.
• Support existing & prospective users
• Strategic leadership
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• About 70 nodes
• …and rising!
• e-Science
• Virtual Research Environments
• e-Social Science
• Teaching
• Seminars, etc.
• Art
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Support
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Quality Assurance Tests
• Audio
• Video
• Networking
• Other software
• Every 6 months
• Access to services
• “QA Assured Nodes”
– http://www.agsc.ja.net/QAtesting/QApasses.php
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InSORS Virtual Venue Server & Bridge
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AG2 Virtual Venue Server & Bridge
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rcBridge
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IG Pix
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IG Recorder
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Arena & ScreenStreamer
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Training Workshops
• Next Workshop – 19 January 2006• Access Grid Support Centre
• New to the AG
• Node Management
• Arena and Memetic
• Node Operation
• Meeting Tools
• Troubleshooting Meetings
• Multicast
• Echo Cancellation
• Successful Meetings – Human Factors
• Teaching Over the Access Grid
• Tom Uram - Argonne National Laboratory
• http://www.agsc.ja.net/training/courses.php
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Coming Up…
• VRVS
– Includes AG Gateway
• Booking System
• New look web pages
• Rollout of new inSORS software (“IG2”)
• New developments…?
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Visual Cues & Audio Localisation
• WIP, but may solve the problem of “who’s speaking?!”
• Highlight the vic window
• Adjust audio to location of displayed window
– Determined by position on screen
– Changes when the window moves
• http://scv.bu.edu/~putnam/ag-audio/misc/poster.pdf
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Automated Video Placement
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Access Grid on the Beach
• Chromakey-like technology
• Provides sense of location
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Beyond Multicast Bridges
• Aspen - http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/aspen-wiki/
Multicast bridge
Aspen – P2P
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http://www.agsc.ja.net
http://www.mc.manchester.ac.uk/services/accessgrid
Research Support ServicesManchester Computing