Thursday, May 22, 2003

[Mary Fritsch]

(rather cryptic from today.. :)


____________________ATTENDEES
Attendees and their status of using AG 2.0 software:

ANL
It was noted that the text channel for AG2.0 stopped working about 5 
minutes into meeting for many remote nodes as well as lib node.  We left 
the lib 2.0 running quite a while yesterday and found an issue.  The proxy 
expired on the audio/video machines in lib before the proxy expired before 
the display machine setup and made it impossible to move from venue to 
venue without restarting everything.

Montana Tech
they have a logitech quick cam, that they thought had a known bug with 
vic.. we mentioned vic update was posted that might help (however they are 
using openmash...)

University of Montana
they are buying equipment and will be using XP, possibly setting up a PIG 
node... they asked if ATI Radeon card would be okay, NCSA mentioned it 
should be fine...

LBNL
Got certificate and software running... however when proxy expired and he 
went to create a new proxy it gave him an error and he could not 
continue.  We explained that the proxy is a temporary login so passwords 
are not necessary for a short period of time, but we hadn't seen this 
error.  We need to get back to Lloyd from LBNL with some suggestions.

Ryerson University
they have RC1 loaded on a single node they call an AGCube, separate from 
another AG node they use with 1.0... with single machines when nodes are 
brought to the AG lobby the video traffic tends to choke the machine and 
the venues client hangs... they have fixed this by killing vic, going to 
the venue they want, and running vic again... it was mentioned this 
direction could be set through the profile if necessary...
I believe we heard that they actually used their 2.0 RC1 node for meetings 
with other sites already.

SDSC
Eric helped getting venue client going through mud conversation.

NDSU
has a test box with XP and 2.0 on it... would like to load on his 
laptop...Jim is still having errors with connecting venue client and 
discussed emailing Tom Uram directly for a workaround.

ECU
Rat only, no participation.

NCSA
service manager not starting in rat, but it can be killed... can't add 
applications currently... Tom mentioned a hook to have the system konw 
about the application would need to happen... extensive conversations about 
applications, services, venue control, setting ACLs, etc followed

_________________OTHER QUESTIONS/CONCERNS

We need to keep adding to faq page with questions/answers.

Venue switches was discussed a few times, it took an unacceptable amount of 
time to move from room to room.  General performance issues discussed.

FEATURE REQUEST:  I need to add this to bugzilla.  In a timeout, having vic 
stop when the server is actually down.  Basically a feature that would 
mirror a refresh of the old AG 1.0 browser page would work well to restart 
system, refresh, and reconnect.

Folks wondered why when someone enters on PIG node (1.0 or 2.0) their video 
streams stays in resource manager instead of dropping...

The issue of time syncing machine came up again and it seems to not help 
some of the errors that folks are having.  With XP it is simpler to set 
internet clock.



Mary

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Mary Fritsch
Futures Laboratory
Math & Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
Bldg 221 / Room A151
Argonne, IL 60439
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Tel: 630.252.5297             Email: fritsch at mcs.anl.gov
Fax: 630.252.6333            URL:   www.mcs.anl.gov/~fritsch/
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Mary Fritsch
Futures Laboratory
Math & Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
Bldg 221 / Room A151
Argonne, IL 60439
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Tel: 630.252.5297             Email: fritsch at mcs.anl.gov
Fax: 630.252.6333            URL:   www.mcs.anl.gov/~fritsch/
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mary Fritsch
Futures Laboratory
Math & Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
Bldg 221 / Room A151
Argonne, IL 60439
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tel: 630.252.5297             Email: fritsch at mcs.anl.gov
Fax: 630.252.6333            URL:   www.mcs.anl.gov/~fritsch/
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