hi,

just to join in the chorus here, we have been running on one or two machines
pretty successfully for the last half year or so. we can use a single windows 1
cpu 1 GHz Pentium III Dell Dimension with a single capture card and an AGP
display card. vic, rat, and dppt run fine here when only a handful of streams
are incoming. it seems to be more stable under windows than linux, but it's a
dual bootable machine so we can try both. of course, vic is stock so we can
transmit as well receive. we use a polycomm soundstation mic/spkr unit for echo
cancellation. the outputs go to projectors or monitors as required.

when we want to handle a larger number of incoming streams we use second windows
dual cpu Dell Precision Workstation for display only and then do the audio/video
capture on the single cpu windows box.

we've had some problems getting all the capture cards to work well in a single
box with the display cards and dual cpus, but will be trying this again with
some new Dell Precision 530 dual cpu Xeon 1.7 GHz workstations we just got in.
we're optimistic this will work with a little work. this will be under windows
so that the dppt will work, too.

let me know if you would any more detailed info.

-gurcharan

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Gurcharan S. Khanna
Associate Director
Research Computing
Dartmouth College
gkhanna@dartmouth.edu
office: 603-646-1644
http://research.dartmouth.edu/
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gkhanna

--- "Shahid Bhatti" wrote:

We at the CS dept of UCSB are trying to create multiple remote sites (on
campus) for participating on Access Grid  meetings. These mini AG nodes will
be able to receive all the incoming video streams and able to send at least
one video stream. For achieving this goal we are visualizing the AG site
with minimal hardware required (as compared to the fully operational
standard AG node also present at UCSB). Looks like two machines with lots of
computing power will can do the job. One machine will be running both VIC
and RAT on Linux and the second machine will act as Win2000 Display machine.
I just wanted to ping in this list to those guys who have successfully done
it in the past and what are the odds involved. Your comments are welcomed
and awaited, thanks.

-Shahid Bhatti
CS Dept. UCSB

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