[AG-TECH] Last minute equipment questions

[Ivan R. Judson]

You only need to run it to configure the gentner.  Generally, the
experience I've had/heard of include only having to do that during setup
or modification.  It's not something that needs to be run continuously.
In that case, the performance is not a critical issue, besides that,
reports are that gentner has tried to make the continuously running
thread a low priority so that other processes get the cpu if they want
it.

--ivan

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Coffin [mailto:tcoffin at ncsa.uiuc.edu] 
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 12:17 PM
To: Ivan R. Judson
Cc: 'Mike Daw'; 'Bryan Kirkendall'; ag-tech at accessgrid.org
Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Last minute equipment questions



doesn't gware take a lot of performance away from
the display machine?

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Ivan R. Judson wrote:

    > 
    > Comments include:
    > 
    > 1) Cables -- http://www.libertycable.com/  good cables, great
service,
    > will put the pheonix on for you :-)
    > 2) Consider a different 4 headed card, even if it's not in the
spec.
    > The Matrox cards are so far behind in technology it's scary.
Nvidia
    > makes a 4 headed card for AGP.  Haven't played with it but hey,
why not
    > have *some* fun ;-)
    > 3) Go with the XAP800, TH2, more mics, then you can run G-Ware on
the
    > display computer and control them all from the display.  You can
    > consider whether to buy the control computer at all then.
    > 4) My stack overflowed...sorry
    > 
    > --Ivan
    > 
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]
On
    > Behalf Of Mike Daw
    > Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 11:03 AM
    > To: 'Bryan Kirkendall'; ag-tech at accessgrid.org
    > Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Last minute equipment questions
    > 
    > 
    > The one thing I'd say is that, unless your room is really small,
I'd go
    > for the Gentner 800 rather than 400 - even if you only buy 4 mics
    > initially. We'd love to have more flexibility with microphones and
4
    > just isn't enough.
    > 
    > --Mike
    > 
    > > -----Original Message-----
    > > From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
[mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
    > > Behalf Of Bryan Kirkendall
    > > Sent: 23 June 2002 05:14
    > > To: ag-tech at accessgrid.org
    > > Subject: [AG-TECH] Last minute equipment questions
    > >
    > >
    > > First off, I would like to thank all of you who have helped me
out 
    > > with my questions these past few weeks.  I've now gotten
together a 
    > > list of everything I think I need to put together my node, but
both
    > > my supervisor
    > > and I thought it would be a good idea to run it by you guys
    > > first, just to
    > > make sure I haven't forgotten anything.  I've posted a copy
    > > of my equip
    > > list at http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~kirk5801/ag , if anybody
    > > has the time
    > > and inclination to check it out, I'd greatly appreciate it.  The
first
    > > file is a part-by-part list of what'll be put in each of the
    > > 4 computers,
    > > the second is a list of the other various equipment I need.
    > > (Quick note -
    > > I haven't gotten a final count on how many microphones the
    > > room is going
    > > to need, hence the question marks there, and that number
    > > will, of course,
    > > determine which Gentner I'll need).
    > >
    > > On a related note, I've recently been contacted by a company
called 
    > > Imprint Systems, who offer a 'one-stop shop' for AGN purchases,
taking
    > 
    > > a single PO for the whole shebang.  (Website at
ag.imprintsystems.com)
    > > We're looking into this as an alternative to buying
    > > everything seperately,
    > > depending on how pricing works out.  Have any of you had any
    > > experience
    > > with buying from this company you'd like to share?
    > >
    > > Sorry for being a bit long-winded there.  ^^;;  Thanks in
advance.
    > >
    > > -------------------------------
    > > Bryan J. Kirkendall
    > > AGN Administrator
    > > University of Idaho CompSci
    > > Moscow, ID 83844
    > > kirk5801 at cs.uidaho.edu
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