[AG-TECH] Quickbridge Questions

[Ivan R. Judson]

Hi,

What I mean by coming soon is before supercomputing, and by graceful I mean
it'll be a simple matter of pointing and clicking from the normal user
interface.

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Melissa Golter [mailto:mgolter at evl.uic.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 1:25 PM
> To: Ivan R. Judson
> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Quickbridge Questions
> 
> 
> 
> 
> the reason I ask is that one of the dsl at anl considerations is 
> that the inSORS 2.0 pkg offers quickbridge fallback 
> capabilities...dsl wants an
> *easy* alternative -- they want to go node-op less :{ -- or 
> at least make it more possile for some to op their own 
> meetings.  The qb is a big part of the decision, especially 
> as other *considerations* seem to have already been met by AG2.0. 
> 
> 
> Not to press anyone (but) if (you or anyone knows if) by *coming
> soon* (and *graceful*) you mean that with some surety AG2.0 
> will have some sort of easily implementable, easy-to-use 
> bridging mechanism available within the next few, or at least 
> 6 months (year???) (*coming soon* is too vague to offer if, 
> say for instance, decisions Might be made by August), it 
> would be good to know.
> 
> :]
> 
> ?
> 
> On Fri, 30 May 2003, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Quickbridge is available in 2.0 currently the same way it 
> is in 1.0. 
> > That is, it's a solution outside of the core software.
> > 
> > Coming soon (we didn't have enough time to get it into 2.0) 
> we'll be 
> > adding an integrated solution into the 2.X Toolkit that allows a 
> > graceful fallback to non-multicast. However, it should be 
> noted that 
> > this is not a substitute for working multicast --
> > 
> > --Ivan
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > > [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Melissa Golter
> > > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 11:50 AM
> > > To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > > Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Quickbridge Questions
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Is a quickbridge *option* *available* in 2.0?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 30 May 2003, Randy Groves wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Just got me thinking - and I haven't tried it yet, but is there
> > > > anything
> > > > that would prevent multiple instantiations of Quickbridge 
> > > running on one
> > > > machine (serving different ports, obviously)?
> > > > 
> > > > -randy
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > 
>