[AG-TECH] Access grid, shared PPT

[Robert Olson]

There are many improvements that could be made to the existing dppt. The 
history of dppt is that it was a quick implementation targetted for a 
specific event (the ACCESS-DC opening gala in April of 1999), where we 
first demonstrated an AG-like system. It has not been significantly changed 
since then, since it has enough functionality to handle what we want to do, 
albeit clumsily.

If you would like to help out with improvements to it, that would be great 
:-).  One of the big challenges we are facing with this project is that 
there is a huge number of improvements and modifications and new features 
we would like to make to the environment, and only a finite amount of 
resources (time, developers, etc).

One of the directions we plan to take the AG in is toward a much richer 
sharing of data and state information in the venues.

Have you looked at the proceedings from the AG retreat? They are at
http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/fl/accessgrid/ag-retreat-2001/proceedings.htm
and there are talks in there that address some of these issues (see Terry's 
talk about workspace docking, my talk about peer to peer architectures, 
Ivan's talk about node management, etc.)

--bob

At 11:05 AM 2/8/2001 -0600, Gregor von Laszewski wrote:
>why is the master client software not written in the following way making 
>it easier for to maintain live session with multiple presentations (note 
>there will no need anymore from the client to specify a URL.
>
>master -start
>       starts master
>
>client -star
>   starts client
>
>
>following parameters will be available to both master and client
>
>
>   -start    starts application
>
>
>   -add <URL>  <name> adds a ppt presentation to the master that gets 
> automatically downloaded to the client
>               each presentation is augmented with a name that can be 
> refered to later
>   -list
>           lists all presentations that are avalable
>   -barrier
>           waits till all clients and the master have the same 
> presentations downloaded.
>   -info <name>
>           shows information about a named presentation, e.g. which 
> clients can display it, which can't
>parameters for only the master
>
>   -activate <name>
>
>activates the presentation with a particular name
>
>