Bielefeld AG setup

[Rick Stevens]

Tom,

The second group you worked with is the group collaborating with 
Bennet Bertenthal and us at UC.  Bennett was visiting them.

Small world


--Rick
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On Thu, 8 
Jul 2004, Thomas D. Uram wrote:

> 
> I apologize for not sending a report about Bielefeld last week.  I was 
> busy with them until the last minute before I had to leave to catch my 
> train, and then was sick and offline for several days.
> 
> Ralf Nolte had set up the AG software on the laptop before I arrived.  I 
> was able to configure the software on the laptop with a projector and 
> have them sending and receiving video and audio quickly.  They also had 
> to make some changes to their router config to get multicast working on 
> the network they established specifically for this purpose.  Once 
> everything was setup, I walked the room of 10 people through the 
> software and they asked questions and everyone was confident that it 
> could be replicated on additional machines as needed.  (Folker talked 
> about setting up the software on a couple Solaris machines to backend a 
> multi-machine node, and seemed very confident; I told him he shouldn't 
> expect that to be as simple as it seems.)
> 
> They had someone preparing for a thesis defense in their main meeting 
> room, so we couldn't do anything in there during my visit.
> 
> I also spent some time with the IT group down the hall, who've been 
> trying to set up the software under SuSe.  We resolved some of the 
> problems they had, but they're still having problems with cross-machine 
> communications.  Anyway, they're working on Neuro-Informatics, and 
> they're exploring the application of sound to data analysis, and working 
> with haptic devices for data analysis.  Their lab looks like an AG node 
> already, and their work would--since it's so media-intensive--integrate 
> with the AG well.
> 
> Tom
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