[AG-TECH] CCS Wednesday Seminar (February 13th)

[Tom Coffin]

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At 07:29 PM 2/8/2002 -0500, Alexandros A Theodoropoulos wrote:
   >Hi,
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   >I apologize in case I am revisiting issues you have covered before but I
   >joined the list recently. I work for the School of Computational Science
   >and Information Technology at Florida State University (Tallahassee) and
   >we also have an Access Grid node here which was setup here by Pr. Fox's
   >group which is now in Indiana University. Besides that, there is also an
   >interest for other AG nodes by one of our other research groups here which
   >has been very active in establishing an educational and research
   >institution in South Africa. So here are my questions to the list:
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   >- My understanding is that AG needs Internet2 to work. If this is
   >correct, does anybody happen to know whether South Africa has or will at
   >some point have this infrastructure ?
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   >- Also an idea is to take the incoming video and audio off the AG node and
   >distribute them to the PCs of our interested users via maybe webcast or
   >some other method. Assuming that this is possible does anyone have any
   >suggestions about implementing such a scheme ? 
   >
   >- I read in the AG documents that it is recommended that the Control
   >system should use either Win98 or WinME because the Gentner software
   >doesn't operate quite well under Win2K. Why is this so and if possible
   >could anybody elaborate on these issues ? We do have some issues with the
   >audio portion here every now and then when the sound breaks up 
   >intermittently and I just want to check on this rat hole. Our equipment is
   >pretty much the recommended one according to the AG documentation.
   >
   >I would greatly appreciate any input you might have.
   >
   >Thanks,
   >
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Tom Coffin .......................... tcoffin at ncsa.uiuc.edu