[AG-USERS] Amado / Searching for MIT node operator

[Jennifer Teig von Hoffman]

Hi Josh,

Guess I should have read the rest of my email before dropping you a note 
to ask about your node. :-)

We run an AG 2.x multicast/unicast bridge locally here at BU, and it's 
really not hard; I'm curious if the issues about the bridge you're 
trying to run are complicated in some way I'm not anticipating? Or 
perhaps it's an issue of where on your network to place the bridge? We 
folks at BU might be able to help you sort things out, and/or the 
ag-tech mailing list is always a great place to get help. There's also a 
MOO where lots of us hang out, at venues.accessgrid.org:7777, where we 
hang out in a room called "the meadow" (if you need info on MOO clients 
and navigation and such, there's a doc at

http://www.accessgrid.org/agdp/howto/use-venues-moo.html

(Um, that was probably way more information than you really wanted . . .)

And generally speaking, if folks from MIT need access to a room-sized 
node to participate in meetings from time to time, please let them know 
they can drop me a note, and if our nodes's available we're happy to 
have them come on over. We've done that in the past for folks from MIT 
and various other local institutions.

- Jennnifer

Joshua Stillerman wrote:

> Amado -
>  My name is Josh Stillerman.  We have several AG capable systems at the 
> MIT-PSFC.  We do not have a room set up for AG, and we do not have an AG 
> node operator.  These are people's desktop machines.  In addition the 
> multicast nature of the AG traffic does really really terrible things to 
> our network in all but the smallest of meetings.  We have discussed  
> with Argonne implementation of a local bridge, so the traffic on our lan 
> would be unicast, but no progress on this has been made.  At this time 
> we can only participate in meetings with a small number of streams, and 
> we don't have a space for a large (more than one or two person) 
> audience.  If you want to speak with one to two people over AG here at 
> MIT for a short meeting, we may be able to accommodate you.
> 
> Sorry,
> 
> -- josh