[AG-TECH] Last minute equipment questions

Vikas Chowdhry vikas at evl.uic.edu
Mon Jun 24 12:03:21 CDT 2002


Jay Beavers from Microsoft had suggested running APware with low 
priority option and then it should not take away that much of 
performance. We tried that on our display machine and it worked much 
better without hogging all the CPU cycles.

Vikas

Tom Coffin wrote:

>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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