AG Demonstrations at SC00

[Robert Olson]

 From my discussions with Bill Nickless (who's working with SCinet this 
year), it appears that SCinet 2000 will be well prepared for very good 
multicast connectivity.

--bob

At 09:40 AM 9/17/2000 -0400, Borchers, Robert R wrote:
>Terrific set of ideas. I am copying Jim McGraw, SC2000 program chair and we
>need to let SCinet know that they need to count on enabling multicast, if
>they don't plan to do so anyway. Bob
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel A. Reed [mailto:reed at ncsa.uiuc.edu]
>Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 9:54 PM
>To: Rick Stevens; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
>Subject: Re: AG Demonstrations at SC00
>
>
>At 02:01 PM 9/13/2000 -0500, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >I'd like to get some ideas for AG demonstrations at SC00.
> >
> >A number of groups will have AG nodes on the show floor at SC00, and also
> >up at remote sites.
> >
> >We are currently in discussion to plan a set of interactions with
> >the European data grid project, CERN and a European conference that is
>running
> >at the same time at SC in Nice, France.
> >
> >I'd like to suggest some other possible SC'00 AG related demos..
>
>Great idea.  We probably need at least one site on the floor, though, that
>has a few chairs for folks to watch these.  If we do this, we ought to
>publicize a mini-tutorial schedule.
>
> >1. Alliance software mini-tutorials (Here I'm thinking of 30-60 minute
> >presentations on
> >Alliance developed Software systems.. these could be from the show floor
> >or from remote
> >sites.. this would include Q+A.
> >
> >2. Remote visualization Demonstrations via the AG. There are a number of
> >groups
> >that have developed
>
>If we did this right, we could have a "roving reporter" with a wireless
>network card and a wearble computer who could interview folks.  I've got a
>couple of NT wearables that we could use.
>
> >3. "Reports" from SC'00.. daily summaries of interesting things live from
>the
> >show floor in the late after noon on each of the conference days.
> >
> >4. Novel AG applications workshop.. an AG based open discussion session on
> >new applications
> >ideas for the AG.
> >
> >5. Live BOFs on the Grid..
> >
> >If you have ideas and suggestions please email them to this list.. we
> >would like to finalize on
> >the AG Demo plans next week.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >--Rick Stevens
>
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