Grid node at eXCHANGE?
Fogel, Robert
robert.fogel at intel.com
Wed Oct 4 14:50:05 CDT 2000
I believe that it would be too late for our logistics folks to execute for
the event next week; however, we would interested in pursuing this at a
future event, such as the Intel Developer's Forum in Feb'01. Thanks Tom.
Robert Fogel
253.371.7075
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Coffin [mailto:tcoffin at ncsa.uiuc.edu]
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 10:04 AM
To: Jon Dugan; Fogel, Robert
Cc: 'Karen Green'; Rick Stevens; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Re: Grid node at eXCHANGE?
I've had the Litton boxes demonstrated here at ACCESS last spring.
It's pretty cool - But the AccessBot outperformed it in a
big way - for point to point the Abot is hard to beat.
http://calder.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ACCESS/Demos/Telebot/
If you do want to pursue the Littons I have contacts
at Litton - and they are very interested in participating
at sc00. They can do up to 4 sites in a session.
_________________________________________
At 10:10 PM 9/21/00 -0500, Jon Dugan wrote:
> About 18 months ago Larry Smarr gave a talk at the Internet 2 members
> meeting in Portland, Oregon from an office here in Champaign.
>
> We used a very nice audio/video codec from Litton for this. It was a
PC
> that you hook a microphone and video camera up to on one side and an
> ethernet on the other. The catch is that it used quite a bit of a
bit of
> bandwidth (3-10Mb/sec). The video quality was quite good. I don't
have
> much experience with the ISDN based systems, but I was fairly
impressed with
> the Litton box. More information about the Litton box can be
obtained from:
>
> http://www.netaccsys.com/video/index.htm
>
> I think for this kind of presentation we definitely want higher
quality
> video than the Access Grid currently provides.
>
> Bob, when you refer to a high bandwidth internet connection in San
> Fransisco, what kind of connection are you talking about? Ideally
you would
> connect to Abilene (Internet 2) or vBNS. In fact Internet 2 has some
Litton
> boxes that they loan out:
>
> http://apps.internet2.edu/roadshows/litton.htm
>
> Bill Nickless/Bob Olson/Lisa Childers -- comments?
>
>On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 07:58:07AM -0700, Fogel, Robert wrote:
>> You can also reach me at the number below. During the week of 10/9,
Intel
>> is hosting the first official rollout of IA-64 and Itanium. The event
>> (called the "eXCHANGE") will host over 5000 OEMs, ISVs, EBSPs and
End-Users
>> aligned to deliver IA-64 based solutions and products. Key Notes
will be
>> delivered by Intel's Andy Grove, Craig Barrett, Paul S. Otellini,
HP's Carly
>> Fiorina, IBM's John M. Thompson and Microsoft's Bill Gates.
>>
>> The eXCHANGE is also setting up seven 15 minute live interviews with
key
>> technology leaders/innovators, and they would like Dan Reed to
participate.
>> Since Dan is unable to make the engagement in person, the idea came
up to
>> use the access grid and a live video feed from Champaign for the
interview.
>> This would be a great PR angle: delivering a message for the future of
>> computing using the next generation communications infrastructure...
>>
>> We don't necessarily expect to setup a grid node at the eXCHANGE
itself,
>> which is in San Francisco, but perhaps this could be done with a high
>> bandwidth internet connection on our end. Please let us know what
we would
>> need on our end. Thank you.
>>
>> Robert Fogel
>> 253.371.7075
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Karen Green [mailto:kareng at ncsa.uiuc.edu]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 6:00 AM
>> To: Rick Stevens; Karen Green; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
>> Cc: robert.fogel at intel.com
>> Subject: RE: Grid node at eXCHANGE?
>>
>>
>> Rick:
>>
>> I'm sure Bob or somebody else at Intel can tell you the tech specs
for the
>> booth. If someone wants to contact him direct, email is
>> robert.fogel at intel.com. Please keep me in the loop on this. Thanks
for the
>> help.
>>
>> Karen
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> At 05:57 PM 9/20/00 -0500, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> >Karen, the ANL team is happy to talk to Robert about technical
options..
>> >Do we know what gear they will have in the booth ?
>> >
>> >At 04:58 PM 9/20/2000 -0500, Karen Green wrote:
>> >>Hi all:
>> >>
>> >>Intel would like to know if they can get a live remote of Dan Reed
from an
>> >>NCSA Grid node to the conference floor of their IA-64 rollout in San
>> >>Fransico on either 10.11 or 10.12. What are the possibilities here?
How
>> >>much work and how much equipment would it take? Please read the
note below
>> >>and let me know what you think.
>> >>
>> >>--If we can't run a grid node, what are other options? Dan says an
ISDN
>> >>conference is one.
>> >>
>> >>thanks much,
>> >>
>> >>Karen Green
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >From: "Fogel, Robert" <robert.fogel at intel.com>
>> >> >To: "'Karen Green'" <kareng at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
>> >> >Subject: RE: Dan's interview at the eXCHANGE
>> >> >Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:25:38 -0700
>> >> >X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21)
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >Perhaps we don't need to setup an actual grid node at the
eXCHANGE;
>> instead,
>> >> >we might be able to use an internet link to the grid. I would
imagine
>> that
>> >> >the internet link would have to be relatively high speed, so we
would
>> need
>> >> >to know what we would have to install as soon as possible so we
can get
>> that
>> >> >lined up. Thanks again Karen.
>> >> >
>> >> >Robert Fogel
>> >> >253.371.7075
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >-----Original Message-----
>> >> >From: Karen Green [mailto:kareng at ncsa.uiuc.edu]
>> >> >Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 1:01 PM
>> >> >To: Fogel, Robert
>> >> >Subject: Re: Dan's interview at the eXCHANGE
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >The way jury duty works in Champaign County is this: you go in in
the
>> >> >morning, you wait around all morning, if you don't get selected
for a
>> jury,
>> >> >you leave around noon. Then you come back the next day and do the
same
>> >> >thing. In other words, you really don't know in advance when or
if you
>> will
>> >> >be available. I don't know about the call-in thing. But I will
check
>> with
>> >> >Dan.
>> >> >
>> >> >As for a live Access Grid node to bring Dan into the booth, it
means we
>> >> >would have to set up a Grid node in the booth. I'm not sure what
that
>> >> >involves in terms of staff time, cost, etc. but I am trying to
find out.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >Karen
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >At 12:11 PM 9/20/00 -0700, you wrote:
>> >> >>Hey Karen, As we've been discussing, Dan maybe able to be
present in
>> >> >eSpirit
>> >> >>via live video feed. The folks at Intel are very excited at the
>> prospect
>> >> >of
>> >> >>Dan's being able to participate. Understanding that Dan has
jury duty
>> >> >>during the eXCHANGE days (10/11 and 10/12), is either one of
those days
>> >> >>preferable to Dan? My understanding is that that Dan calls in
the
>> night
>> >> >>before to find out if he has to report on a given day. Thanks.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>Robert Fogel
>> >> >>253.371.7075
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
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>> >> >Karen Green
>> >> >Assistant Director for Communications
>> >> >National Center for Supercomputing Applications
>> >> >605 E. Springfield Ave.
>> >> >Champaign, IL 61820
>> >> >kareng at ncsa.uiuc.edu
>> >> >ph: 217-265-0748, fax: 217-244-7396
>> >> >http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
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>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>---------------------------------------------------
>> >>Karen Green
>> >>Assistant Director for Communications
>> >>National Center for Supercomputing Applications
>> >>605 E. Springfield Ave.
>> >>Champaign, IL 61820
>> >>kareng at ncsa.uiuc.edu
>> >>ph: 217-265-0748, fax: 217-244-7396
>> >>http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
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>> >
>> >
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> Karen Green
>> Assistant Director for Communications
>> National Center for Supercomputing Applications
>> 605 E. Springfield Ave.
>> Champaign, IL 61820
>> kareng at ncsa.uiuc.edu
>> ph: 217-265-0748, fax: 217-244-7396
>> http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
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>
>--
>Jon Dugan | Senior Network Engineer, NCSA Network
Development
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>217/244-7715 | http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/people/jdugan
>
>
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Tom Coffin .......................... tcoffin at ncsa.uiuc.edu
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