[AG-TECH] New venues

[Don Morton]

I just want to make sure I'm clear on this, so 
I'm going to ask a probably-dumb question.

Suppose U. Montana is having multicast problems.  What
good is it going to do for "us" to be running QuickBridge?
I assume the purpose of QuickBridge, like the MSB at
ANL, is to provide a link between the lowly unicast world
and the elite multicast world.  If we ain't got multicast,
we ain't going nowhere by running QuickBridge, right?

On the other hand, if Monika is running QuickBridge and her
multicast is working, then perhaps we could coordinate with
her to unicast to her QuickBridge and multicast out the
other side.  Or, vice versa.  In other words, unless I'm
missing something, it seems to me that running QuickBridge
is a good, "neighbourly" thing to do, and doesn't particularly
benefit the site that's running QuickBridge (other than knowing
you're helping others, which is good).

So, I can see where coordination might be tricky but, if enough of
us run QuickBridge and create informal regional alliances, perhaps
we can always have someone to rely on when our multicast goes down?

Or, have I missed the boat completely?


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Monika,
 
You could always use QuickBridge!
 
http://www.accessgrid.org/agdp/howto/quickbridge.html
 
Mike

        -----Original Message-----
        From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
Behalf Of Robert Olson
        Sent: 22 April 2002 22:40
        To: Monika Klara Rabarison; Don Morton
        Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
        Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] New venues

        Given the huge number of venues, I would rather not do that. The msb
administration is already way
        too unwieldy for me to want to spend any more time poking at...

        (bridge config file is already >5000 lines)

        --bob

        At 10:02 AM 4/22/2002 -0500, Monika Klara Rabarison wrote:

         Bob,

         Could you set MSB in those new venues?

         Just in case ...

         Monika


         On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Don Morton wrote:

         > Monika Klara Rabarison wrote:
         > > 
         > > This is cool.
         > > 
         > > Thank you Bob,
         > > 
         > > Monika
         > 
         > I'm kind of thinking that, in many respects, this could
         > almost completely remove the need for scheduling venues,
         > making life easier for everybody.  It seems now like
         > more of a matter of saying, "your place or mine?" when
         > one tries to coordinate an event.
         > 
         > I've noticed some folks still trying to schedule a venue
         > and think it might take a little more of a formal announcement
         > to convince everybody that, in most cases, maybe you don't
         > need to schedule anymore :) :)
         > 
         > Thanks again, Bob - what a brainstorm! :)
         > 
         > 
         > > 
         > > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Robert Olson wrote:
         > > 
         > > > In an attempt to relieve some of our scheduling woes, I've
created 94 new
         > > > venues on venues.accessgrid.org :-).
         > > >
         > > > Each site in the list of registered nodes (see
         > > > http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/fl/accessgrid/ag-nodes.htm) now has a
venue for
         > > > that site to use as it wishes. We won't be doing any centralized
scheduling
         > > > on these venues.
         > > >
         > > > They are reachable via the Institution Lobby venue, off the
Access Grid Lobby.
         > > >
         > > > --bob
         > > >
         > > 
         > > --------------------------------------------------
         > > Monika Rabarison
         > > System Administrator
         > > HPVCI
         > > Jackson State University
         > > Lab-(601)979-5933
         > > RAVE Room-(601)979-1056 or (601)979-1061
         > 
         > 
         > -- 
         >    Don Morton                   http://MRoCCS.cs.umt.edu/~morton/
         >    Department of Computer Science       The University of Montana
         >    Missoula, MT 59812 | Voice (406) 243-4975 | Fax (406) 243-5139
         > 

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         Monika Rabarison
         System Administrator
         HPVCI
         Jackson State University
         Lab-(601)979-5933
         RAVE Room-(601)979-1056 or (601)979-1061
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   Don Morton                   http://MRoCCS.cs.umt.edu/~morton/
   Department of Computer Science       The University of Montana
   Missoula, MT 59812 | Voice (406) 243-4975 | Fax (406) 243-5139