1. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester Access Grid in the UK John Gordon Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Michael Daw Manchester Computing The Current Situation…

2. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester Access Grid in the UK About 70 AG nodes …and rising! E-Science Virtual Research Environments E-Social Science Art Teaching Seminars, etc.

3. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester Typical Views of Access Grid Weddings Seminar SC Global WorkshopPerformance Arte-Social Science SC Global

4. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester Access Grid Support Centre General support IG Pix IG Recorder Virtual Venue Servers Multicast-Unicast Bridges QA Tests Training

5. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester 1 st & 2 nd line support For node ops / end-users FAQ’s AGSC – Support

6. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester 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. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester AGSC – IG Recorder Product from inSORS Allows recording of AG events

8. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester 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. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester 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. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester 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. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester

12. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester 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

13. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester AGSC – Documentation Port usage (Javier Gomez Alonso): http://www.accessgrid.org/agdp/guide/ports.html More to come!

14. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester AGSC – Who’s Using It?

15. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester 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

16. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester Meeting Memory and the AG Memetic – improving the ways we conduct meetings to enable asynchronous collaboration http://www.memetic-vre.net

17. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester 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

18. Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria University of Manchester Contact Details http://www.sve.man.ac.uk/General/Staff/daw michael.daw@manchester.ac.uk Research Support Services @ Manchester Computing