[AG-TECH] Hardware news - towards a single machine node

[Jason Leigh]

Ivan attached are specs on how to put together a passive stereo display
driven by a PC and a dual channel GeForce2 (AGAVE- Access Grid Augmented
Virtual Environment). So far the sites that are building them are USGS,
Access, NWU, U Michigan Geology.

Using the CAVElib you can drive it in either Windows or Linux. We are also
bundling the software as part of the AG CDROM.

Jason

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
> Behalf Of Ivan R. Judson
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 8:19 AM
> To: Ag-Tech at Mcs. Gov
> Cc: Jeff Ramacher; Todd Needham
> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Hardware news - towards a single machine node
>
>
>
> Hey all,
>
> I'll be working in the next few weeks on a written definition of AG Node
> Requirements.  This will mostly be formalizing alot of the information we
> already have.  This will shake out what it is we expect the current 4
> machine node to do.  Defining what this functionality is, and building the
> API's for each component will let us explore this kind of idea without
> impacting the current operating schedule of the AG (ie, we're way too
> successful to have people randomly breaking nodes for experiments).
>
> One part of this is to define "Core Node Functionality" and
> "Auxillary Node
> Functionality".  This is the line between what a minimum node is (the Core
> Functionality) and what a cool far out node might include (microscopes,
> milling machines, mood indicators, whatever).  If you have ideas for what
> you might augment a node with, please send those to me so I can
> include them
> as examples...
>
> Any thoughts?  Ideas?  Are you going to toss me off the ship yet?
>
> --Ivan
>
> PS -- Oh my, we might actually start version numbering!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
> > Behalf Of Jeff Ramacher
> > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 7:15 PM
> > To: Todd Needham
> > Cc: disz at mcs.anl.gov; Ag-Tech at Mcs. Gov
> > Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Hardware news - towards a single machine node
> >
> >
> > I think it would be really cool (but probably way too expensive to
> > develop) to move some of the AV processing off of the system CPU to a
> > special purpose AG pci board or something like that.  Does anyone know
> > if there's a "vic in a chip" kind of thing already?
> >
> > Just my thoughts on a Friday afternoon...
> > --
> > jeffr
> >
> > Todd Needham wrote:
> > >
> > > Given discussions regarding CPU requirements for a single
> machine node,
> > > thought you might like to know I saw a pre-production dual P4 (1.7GHz
> > > Foster) from Dell today: 64 & 32 bit PCI buses, built-in 1394, onboard
> > > fast Ethernet.  The real news is that they expect to start shipping
> > > these in May with a reasonable starting configuration under $4K.
> > > Needless to say, 4 cameras and all those video streams are
> not going to
> > > be an issue.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > We also had discussions with Viewcast/Osprey about getting
> P4-optimized
> > > drivers for their capture cards and we're following up separately with
> > > their development team next week.  It would still be nice to
> get all of
> > > this running on a single proc P4 to keep the cost down even further.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Todd Needham
> > >
> > > Manager, Research Programs Group
> > >
> > > Microsoft Research
> > >
> > > http://research.microsoft.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Ramacher (jeffr at mhpcc.edu)                | (808) 879-5077, x264
> > Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) | fax (808) 879-5018
> >                                                | http://www.mhpcc.edu
> >
>
>
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