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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Well, my two cents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>We are running a T7500 fully
loaded with windows 7 64bit. We run everything on it except for the video
capture which we run on an Ubuntu machine. The reason for this is driver
issues with most to not all capture cards and windows. We have an Osprey
440 and no matter how hard we tried we could never get the 4<sup>th</sup> input
to work. Under Ubuntu, it works just fine without any tuning, and is as
stable as can be. Any machine that is a first gen Core2Duo can run the
video capture part without a problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>As far as the sound, we had
horrid problems with the Soundblaster X-FI that came with it. We ended up
taking it out and just using the onboard audio that comes with the
machine. We have not had a single problem since.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Adam Taylor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Computing Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>University of Louisiana Monroe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
ag-tech-bounces@lists.mcs.anl.gov [mailto:ag-tech-bounces@lists.mcs.anl.gov] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Jonathan Klubek<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 25, 2011 8:30 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ag-tech@lists.mcs.anl.gov<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [AG-TECH] Access Grid Hardware/Software Questions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>My group at our university was recently tasked by one of our
departments to construct an access grid facility (this facility will also
function for other types of conferencing and classroom needs also). After
much reading we have determined many pieces we need to get including things
such as several ClearOne, Crestron and Extron products to control the various
audio and video pieces ranging from scaling windows on the projectors and
switching sources to mixing and cancelling echo on the microphones on the
various tables. The problem we are running into in examining
everything is with the access grid machine itself. We have looked at the
technology and many of the pieces of hardware are many years old and we are
seeing possible issues with integration as things such as PCI are replaced with
PCI-e.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We are looking at going with a Dell Precision workstation
T7500 to be the access grid machine and have thought about adding more memory
and a second processor to it (remember that it will serve multiple purposes.
. My questions are the following:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]> I see that the software is listed for Linux, OS
X, and Windows. We most likely will be going with Windows so we can
support Microsoft Link also. This software is listed for Windows XP but
does it work with Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit. This is extremely
important with Windows XP support coming to a close. Also, with the
increased resources we plan to use it may be necessary to use 64-bit to take advantage
of things such as 4+ GB of memory.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>As mentioned before the technologies listed are out of
date. We are especially seeing this with the video capture cards and
audio cards. I was wondering if the following would be supported:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>a.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>SoundBlaster
X-FI XtremeMusic (D)w/Dolby Digital 5.1 (this was the card option on the Dell)
– if not is there a newer card than the one listed that is? We will
of course need to integrate with our other products.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>b.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Datapath
VisionRGB-E1 PCI-e RGB/DVI capture card<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>c.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Osprey
Osprey-450e PCI-e Analog video capture card<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>If not we are looking for several recommendations of much
newer technology that is supported as we see this to be extremely important.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Jonathan<o:p></o:p></p>
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