Hello all, I have also sent an email of support for AGSchedule directly to Michael. I agree that AGSchedule is very important to this community!!!
Cheers, Brian Alex Favata wrote: > Ditto from TACC, it's The HEART of AG scheduling. I have it as my > homepage and it's the first thing I look at each day. > > Alex Favata - Operations Supervisor > Texas Advanced Computing Center > The University of Texas at Austin > http://www.tacc.utexas.edu > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov] On > Behalf Of Tom Coffin > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 1:52 PM > To: John I. Quebedeaux, Jr; Michael Miller; ag-tech; > ag-u...@mcs.anl.gov; ag-...@mcs.anl.gov; agsched...@ncsa.uiuc.edu > Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] AGSchedule Support > > > I concur with John. > > The AGScheduler is a very important component and resource to the > AccessGrid (AG) community. > > From my own perspective as an AG node operator > I rely heavily on the AGScheduler for just about every AG event > I am involved in. It's an invaluable cybercommunity coordination tool. > > Feel free to use my comments, share with NCSA Administration officials > and/or > included as support for grant proposals. > > > ____________________________________________________ > At 02:00 PM 9/20/2007, John I. Quebedeaux, Jr wrote: >> Michael, >> >> The "Louisiana Access Grid Network" utilizes the AGScheduler > exclusively for >> keeping track of all the Access Grid events it hosts - while utilizing > our >> own Louisiana Venue Server to run the meetings. As you know, we have > our >> venue server listed on the site for registration purposes with 6 > venues. >> They've been successful and the booking capability in the AGScheduler > makes >> it possible to easily book and maintain these reservations and > sessions. >> We're currently (but not all registered, some are multiple nodes per > site) >> up to ~18 Access Grid nodes within our state that are operational with > some >> more coming on line in the near future that makes use of this. When we >> conduct meetings with external sites, we sometimes utilize the NCSA > Venue >> Server and bridge as needed, particularly since it's so well known in > the >> global community and for some sites the firewall security restrictions > make >> it such they've chosen the NCSA venue addresses as those they'll > accept. >> Even VRVS.ORG, etc. is setup with NCSA venues. What I'm trying to say > is >> currently, the AGScheduler (and the venue server) is providing a vital >> service to the "Access Grid" community here in my state as well as >> worldwide. >> >> Currently, I require new Louisiana Access Grid nodes to register to the >> AGScheduler so that we maintain consistency for reservations and track > our >> usage with the statistics the scheduler provides. >> >> So, the resource is invaluable at the moment and would be sorely missed > for >> the ability to point everyone joining a meeting to it for reference for > when >> and where the meeting is to be held for the lack of any other central >> calendar facility (at least on this side of the pond). Frankly, I'm not > sure >> what we would do if we lost it in the near term - it seems to be a > central >> resource for the Access Grid community as a whole. >> >> Regards, >> >> John Q. >> -- >> John I. Quebedeaux, Jr.; Louisiana State University >> Computer Manager LBRN; 131 Life Sciences Bldg. >> e-mail: jo...@lsu.edu; web: http://lbrn.lsu.edu >> phone: 225-578-0062 / fax: 225-578-2597 >> >>> From: Michael Miller <mimil...@ncsa.uiuc.edu> >>> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:07:02 -0500 >>> To: ag-tech <ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov>, <ag-u...@mcs.anl.gov>, >> <ag-...@mcs.anl.gov> >>> Subject: [AG-TECH] AGSchedule Support >>> >>> NCSA is currently evaluating its support for AGSchedule. We are >>> requesting input from the AG Community both techs and users as to > the >>> value of AGSchedule, its potential if continued and impact if no >>> longer available. Also, we would like to know if other scheduling >>> systems are currently in use within the AG Community or other >>> collaborative communities. Please send your comments to the >>> AGSchedule Administrator: agsched...@ncsa.uiuc.edu. Please include > a >>> statement as to whether your comments may be shared with NCSA >>> Administration officials and/or included as support for grant >>> proposals. Your comments are greatly appreciated. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> Michael Miller >>> AGSchedule Administrator >>> NCSA >>> > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Tom Coffin .......................... tcof...@ncsa.uiuc.edu > > NCSA-ACCESS cel: 703-477-5948 > 901 North Stuart Street, #800 tel: 703-248-0105 > Arlington, Virginia 22203 fax: 703-248-0100 > > _________________________ http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~tcoffin >