Hi Eric,
What do you use to do the component to composite down conversion? Is
that an inexpensive hardware component? If so, a nice solution for the
fact that the Sony can't do SD and HD at the same time.
Brian
Tellekson, Eric G. wrote:
Todd,
Here is our combination @ South Dakota State
Hi Derek,
That sound like a nice solution... It drives me crazy that with the Sony
HD-1 you need to flip a dip switch on the camera to switch between a
live SDI out and a composite out. This basically means you can't
multipurpose the camera between HD and SD video. I need a ladder and a
screw
Hi Gurcharan,
Here is a reference to a book chapter we recently published. It is more
about how the collaboration infrastructure at our facility gets used as
opposed to about AG directly, but we discuss AG as a tool for
facilitating scientific collaboration...
Corrie, B., and Zimmerman, T.
Hello all,
I find that the Wainhouse Research site has excellent reports of this
type. It is targeted at the business community and not the research
community, but they have extensive reports. Some of the more
comprehensive studies cost money (the platinum membership) but lots are
free as
please visit http://conferences.irmacs.sfu.ca/c2c/index.html.
The registration fee is $60 CAN and the deadline for registration is
April 13, 2009.
*
Please forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested in
attending the C2C Retreat.
*
Organizers: Brian Corrie (WestGrid
You might want to check out:
http://www.westgrid.ca/support/collaboration/howto
It is WestGrid specific, but has a couple of intro documents that you
might find useful.
Brian
John Maher wrote:
Hello all,
I've recently been given the responsibility to establish an AG node at
the
Hello all,
Here is the IRMACS visitor booklet, which has lots of pointers to useful
things both on campus and off campus. Many of these might be helpful.
Brian
Jason Bell wrote:
G'day All
Thanks to all those who replied.
I found this website http://www.vancouvertourist.com/page190.htm
Hi Jason,
Lots to see and do around Vancouver, depending on your preferences...
Lots of great hiking in the area (along the coast, to the tops of the
local mountains), cycling, kayaking, etc. If you are a fitness buff, I
would recommend the Grouse Grind (nature's stairmaster), a relatively
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
Hello,
Antonio Bandeira wrote:
Hi,
I've found a few “problems” with the new AG3.1 beta. Don’t know if it is
just me, but...
- Working in unicast mode, adding a new service under “node management” will
cause all previously added services to restart using a multicast address.
I was
Hi John,
Interesting... Does anyone know anything about SDI HD capture cards. We
are looking at HD as well (but no direct experience yet) and the trick
seems to be to get video off of the camera avoiding the onboard encoding
of the video, which often adds significant latency (which is not good
Hi Derek,
A great question... Here is my $0.02 CAD worth! Ready for a soapbox
statement!!! 8-)
In our context, I see the use of collaboration tools growing in the
computational sciences (and in research in general). The grid computing
consortia in Canada just went through a round of funding
I use AG over wireless quite often, with both audio and video. It works
fine for the most part. If there are problems I would hazard a guess
that it is a wireless network issue. Either lots of wireless traffic,
overloaded Access Points (too many connections) and/or poor signal
strength for the
Hi All,
One of the comments that we get from our Physics community is why can't
it be more like VRVS. The simple web interface that everyone knows is
not a bad thing... If that worked on top of the AG 3.0 TK I think that
would be pretty cool. Not sure how to do it and/or how easy it would be,
but
Hi all,
Back in the AG 1.x days we had something along these lines working.
Recall that AG 1.x was web based and it started up vic and rat through
wrappers that were started via web navigation. This was a bit of an
extension that we did on AG 1.x. We got this going to some degree, using
the
Hello all,
We (WestGrid) have fought this battle as well. We run our own venue
server and have set all of the ports on it manually so that they fall
within a very restricted range. We have documented this in the following
document. This is our attempt to help people get over this problem. Not
Hi Derek,
I say break away. As you said, its alpha software and only out there a few
days... I can't imagine too many people (if any) have used it in a
production sense.
Although I haven't looked at this in detail yet, this looks like great
stuff!!! I wouldn't mind this discussion continuing on
Hello all,
Hmmm, this does look interesting!
Julia Mullen wrote:
Hi Natalia -
This sounds great! Have you resolved the issue of slow VNC when you have
multiple sites? In addition, I have seen a number of issues arising
when a presenting site wants to share software or images that
That is very cool. I look forward to seeing this one!
Cheers,
Brian
Robert Putnam wrote:
And, for the record, I am putting the finishing touches on a system that
uses rat's built-in spatial audio and a modified vic to highlight the
current speaker in an AG session. Poster from SC here:
Hi Mike,
I am not sure that that is the best solution... I personally am not
terribly good at going to forum's to check discussion groups. I think
that there are others like me in that regard. Thus relying just on the
portal may reduce the involvement of some people.
I would prefer to see
, 24 May 2005, Brian Corrie wrote:
I am not sure, but I thought the AG Vic on the Mac was the UCL version,
not the Mash version. Not 100% sure about that, but that is my
understanding. Clarification from Argonne?
Brian
Jimmy Miklavcic wrote:
For what its worth, mash vic (http
Hi Andrew,
Is JMF receiving much development as a Java toolkit. We did some work a
few years ago on a JMF based video transcoder. It has a lot of potential
in that regard because of its architecture. As you say, you just plug in
new codecs as they are developed.
What we found was that there
Hi Mike,
I agree with Mike Daw in the sense that we seem to be already there in
terms of having a community portal. A bit premature in the sense that
Darran probably wanted to have things formed up a bit more before going
live, but it is up and running now 8-). Starting over may not be the
best
I am not sure, but I thought the AG Vic on the Mac was the UCL version,
not the Mash version. Not 100% sure about that, but that is my
understanding. Clarification from Argonne?
Brian
Jimmy Miklavcic wrote:
For what its worth, mash vic (http://www.openmash.org/) already
has mpeg4 support
Hi Darin,
We use a Mac as our display machine in a number of our rooms here. It
works quite well with no issues on the node service side. Works like any
other AG machine.
Brian
Darin Oman wrote:
Has anybody played with a multi-machine node that included a Mac in the
mix? Even more
Hi Tom,
Derek's comments are good ones...
One of the things we talked about at the retreat was understanding what
AG 3.0 is going to look like. I think this is especially important for
those that are developing shared apps and node services. Do you have any
information on what is going to be
Yes, same here. We use AG on the desktop more and more. Once our users
are familiar with it, it works well. There is a learning curve and a
certain frustration level that has to be dealt with before it can be
used effectively...
Brian
Jeremy Mann wrote:
John I Quebedeaux Jr said:
So,
with 256mb of
RAM. Due to the high volume of audio and video streams in the sessions, a
high speed bandwidth connection is also recommended.
To obtain a software download and license, please contact Jim Miller
(jmil...@insors.com).
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Brian Corrie wrote:
Hi,
Does
Hello all,
Does anyone know if the town hall presentations are archived anywhere?
This might be a good thing to do in general...
I am looking for one in particular, but I can't seem to find it. In
fact, I am not even sure it actually occurred because I didn't attend.
At some point I seem to
Hi All,
Just a comment that I have based on what our users have said. This is in
comparison to VRVS, which many of our users utilize. The ability to be
able to set an access password on a venue would be a good thing. This is
fairly weak security, but would meet many user's needs.
The VRVS
Hi Argonne Cert folks!!!
How do AG certs get generated?
Mine expired today and we have a very important demo coming up very
soon! I need to get this renewed ASAP, is there a way to hurry this
along 8-)
Brian
Hello all,
Over the last year or so we have been working on a shared application
for integrating SGI's visualization server (VizServer) software into the
AG. VizServer is a collaborative visualization platform that allows
collaborators to visualize data sets on a large scale visualization
Try running the certificate manager through the VenueClient not through
the initial Mac interface that you get when you start AG. This is a
known bug I believe.
Brian
Donald Roeber wrote:
I'm trying to get AccessGrid 2.3 running on MacOS X. I'd like this
system to be a VenueServer when
Hi George,
For some basic documentation on the installation process you can have a
look at some of WestGrid's documentation. There is a fairly extensive
install manual that should be up to date with respect to 2.3.
Not sure if it will solve your problems but it might help. In
particular, you
Hi Doug,
This is getting close. We have been experimenting with a couple of tools
that do video display on the Mac. There is a VRVS version of vic that
runs on the Mac and can use the iSight camera. VP is a display tool out
of the Australian National University and it also runs on the Mac and
--
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 19:23:28 -0700
From: Brian Corrie bcor...@sfu.ca
To: Markus Buchhorn markus.buchh...@anu.edu.au
Cc: Gurcharan S. Khanna gurcharan.s.kha...@dartmouth.edu,
Robert Callaway r...@engineering.ucsb.edu, AG_TECH
ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Smartest AG Room
Hi Jimmy, others,
I am not a Mac person so I am probably a good person to give
instructions. Our install went very well and was quite straightforward.
We downloaded the two packages (wxPython and AGTK) as Mac DMG files and
installed them as you would normally.
The AG VenueClient basically ran
Configuring standard environment
12/03/04 15:31:50 -1610571284 CertificateManager
CertificateManager.py:802 DEBUG Using default identity /O=Access
Grid/OU=agdev-ca.mcs.anl.gov/OU=sfu.ca/CN=Brian Corrie
12/03/04 15:31:50 -1610571284 CertificateManager
CertificateManager.py:873 DEBUG Initializing
-Dec-04, at 2:36 PM, Marius Schamschula wrote:
Hi Brian,
Where on the VRVS site did you find the binaries? I can only find
mentions of it in the documentation pages.
On Dec 3, 2004, at 11:48 AM, Brian Corrie wrote:
Hi Tom,
Awesome, thanks. That worked...
Another MacOS question. I have
:
There's a known problem on the mac, whereby certificates can't be
imported if the certificate manager is launched from the AGLauncher. If
you start the venue client, and use Preferences-ManageCertificates, you
should be able to import your certificate.
Tom
Brian Corrie wrote
Hi All,
I just installed AG 2.3 on a MacOSX box. Everything went smoothly until
I tried to import my certs. I only get an error on import message. I
was able to import the Grid Canada CA signining authority but no luck on
the certs. Has anyone else seen this problem?
I am going to explore the
Hi All,
Since we are talking about restricting access, I thought I would pose a
slightly different question.
We have been experimenting (unsuccessfully) with access control lists on
our VenueServer. It isn't clear to me how to restrict access to a given
venue on our server to only a certain
Hi Markus,
We have run into exactly the same type of problem for some of the work
we are doing. There really is no way around this at the moment that I am
aware of. We have talked to Ivan and company about this. Here is a
paraphrase from an email I sent to the Argonne folks about this...
Brian
Hi Tom,
A quick question following along this thread... How do you decide which
functionalities you include in a class like VenueI and VenueIW? I was
exploring this and found that one of the classes that I was using did
not have all of the interface functionality that I required.
Is the best
at startup time is sufficient.
--bob
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Randy Groves wrote:
Is GLOBUS_HOSTNAME even used anymore? I removed it before installing 2.2,
and I don't see 2.2 setting it - is something wrong with my install?
-randy
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Brian Corrie wrote:
Hi Ivan
Hi Ivan,
Speaking of replacements for programs in AG 2.2 I noticed a problem
recently. In 2.1.2 when my PIG node changed locations (home to office
etc) there was an app that started up that changed the GLOBUS_HOSTNAME
variable. I am not sure what it was called but it detected a change in
the
certificatemanager.py:717
DEBUG Configuring standard environment
06/18/04 14:19:16 3064 CertificateManager certificatemanager.py:783
DEBUG Using default identity /O=Access
Grid/OU=agdev-ca.mcs.anl.gov/OU=sfu.ca/CN=Brian Corrie
06/18/04 14:19:16 3064 CertificateManager certificatemanager.py:854
DEBUG
Hello all (mostly Argonne folks),
I think I have written an AG 2.2 shared application. My question is
about backwards compatibility with AG 2.1.2 venue servers etc.
I can successfully register my shared app with agpm on my 2.2 client on
my laptop. When I connect to a 2.1.2 venue server sure
Hi Randy,
This may or may not help. I was able to get 2.2 running on my laptop and
connect to a 2.1.2 venue server fine. The one trick I needed to do was
to remove the AccessGrid folder in the C:\Documents and
Settings\bcorrie\Application Data\
Having this folder with 2.1.2 stuff in it seemed
Hi Tom,
Do you have a plan and roadmap for application/service control for AG?
We have a student (at least our NRC colleagues in Ottawa do) working on
this and it would be good if we could find out what your roadmap is.
This way we could feed back our needs (as could others) into your
Hello All,
It is possible to use a different certificate authority now. You have to
import the CA itself as well as the individual certs but it does work.
We are using GridCanada as our Certificate Authority.
Cheers,
Brian
Ivan R. Judson wrote:
We are putting together a strategy so other
Hi Natalai,
No one has suggested this yet, but you might want to look at whether you
are using the right setting in terms of PAL/NTSC etc. If xawtv looks
good but vic does not this implies that is an application level problem,
not a camera problem. If you don't have the right video settings we
!!!
Cheers,
Brian
Brian Corrie wrote:
Hi Michael,
Michael Braitmaier wrote:
Hello Brian!
Thanks so far for the information. At least I got it working so my
small app is called from within the producer service. Addditionally
now wrote a consumer service. My main problem now is how to get
the stream creation the application would probably
not start... Any comments from the AG team?
Cheers,
Brian
Brian Corrie wrote:
Hi Ivan, Michael,
We have gone down this path as well, but have had a bit more success
with the NodeService side of things. There are really two issues here.
One
Hi Ivan, Michael,
We have gone down this path as well, but have had a bit more success
with the NodeService side of things. There are really two issues here.
One is getting the node service to work. The other is on which way to
integrate the application...
Integrating Node Services:
We have a
Hello all,
I ran into this a short time ago as well. Not surprising but my
certificate expired at midnight the day before I had a very important
demonstration. Checked everything exhaustively the day before of course.
Mr. Murphy was on the ball!
I think it would be ***very*** useful to check
the directions below.
Enjoy,
Brian
Brian Corrie wrote:
Hello all,
I just finished creating a new AG service that is quite useful for a pig
node. Neither the VideoProducerService or VideoConsumerService are
terribly useful for a pig node as the settings for neither are correct
Hello all,
We have a set of Smart Technologies smartboards in our AG node here at
Simon Fraser University. Yes they are expensive, but they also provide a
significantly different capability to that provided by the mimio. Both
are interesting devices to use.
We have started to explore how to
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