[AG-TECH] Strange question

[Supreeya Miller]

Thank you, Tom.

USM wants to use 1 camera to point to the professor, another camera to point
on the white board that he writes on, another camera for pictures or slides
that he may have, and another camera to point to the students at USM.  So
there will be no desktop sharing on the computer at USM.

Supreeya Miller
System Administrator/Visualization Researcher/Access Grid Coordinator
High Performance Visualization Center
Center of Higher Learning
Building 1103
Stennis Space Center, MS  39539
Phone: 228-688-2190
Fax:   228-688-7454
E-mail:Supreeya.Miller at usm.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Coffin [mailto:tcoffin at ncsa.uiuc.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 2:10 PM
To: Supreeya Miller; ACCESS community
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Strange question


hi Supreeya
You can use VNC to shared a 1024x768 desktop
which can include a white board...
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/


At 02:05 PM 12/5/2001 -0600, Supreeya Miller wrote:
   >All,
   >
   >We have a lot of people come to our center and some of them are
professors.
   >I'm also in the process of building the second Access Grid Node for USM
   >(university of Southern Mississippi).  When the node is done, there
will be
   >a lot of class activities between CHL (at Stennis) and USM.  The
professors
   >that came and visited our center have some concerns that the resolution
of
   >the images on the Access Grid is not high enough for them, and there are
   >some jaggy problems due to many hops and points in the network that we
have
   >to go through (details are below).  When I did the full size image, they
   >were not satisfied even more (they could see pixels change clearly).
One of
   >the professors has asked me a question, which I don't know how to
answer.
   >He wants to do a distance learning by point-to-point (between CHL and
USM)
   >using the Access Grid equipment.  He wants (to start with) 2 windows,
each
   >with 1024x768 resolution.  So that they can write on the white board,
and
   >the distance students (at CHL) can see everything perfectly clear (they
   >refuse to use Power Point Presentation files).
   >
   >Our network details
   >	CHL -> uses DS3 to -> JACKSON -> uses OC3 to -> USM -> uses OC3 to ->
   >JACKSON -> uses OC3 to -> Internet2
   >	CHL -> JACKSON -> USM -> Internet
   >	Our router is at USM that is why we have to go to USM first for both
   >Internet2 and commodity Internet.
   >
   >I've looked at the Microsoft NetMeeting.  But that is one computer that
does
   >video and audio.  We have 4 computers, and 2 computers are running
Linux as
   >we know.
   >I've also looked at VRVS.  But that does not even need Internet 2 (if
I'm
   >wrong, please correct me).  He wants to fully utilize the bandwidth of
   >Internet 2, in this case we mean DS3 bandwidth (50 Mb)
   >
   >How possible can this "point-to-point distance learning using Access
Grid
   >equipment" be done and how can I go about doing it?
   >
   >I thank you in advance for any help.
   >
   >Supreeya Miller
   >System Administrator/Visualization Researcher/Access Grid Coordinator
   >High Performance Visualization Center
   >Center of Higher Learning
   >Building 1103
   >Stennis Space Center, MS  39539
   >Phone: 228-688-2190
   >Fax:   228-688-7454
   >E-mail:Supreeya.Miller at usm.edu
   >
   >


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Tom Coffin .......................... tcoffin at ncsa.uiuc.edu