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Title: Group-to-Group Collaboration Using the Access Grid


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Group-to-Group Collaboration Using the Access Grid
Allan Spale, Research Assistant Vikas Chowdhry,
Research Assistant Melissa Golter, Research
Assistant
2
History
  • November 1998
  • Futures Laboratory Group at Argonne National
    Laboratory creates the Access Grid
    1
  • 1999
  • EVL begins participation in the Access Grid
    community 2
  • Today
  • 104 Access Grid nodes nationally and
    internationally
  • Some sites have multiple Access Grid nodes
    (including EVL)


    6

3
Nodes
  • Spaces for people
  • Specially designed physical audio-visual spaces
  • Support interactions with people locally and
    across the network
  • Additional high-end video and audio equipment
  • Create a favorable user experience

4
Nodes
  • Spaces for people
  • Have many visual displays to allow for viewing
    many video streams and other applications
  • Types of furniture and furniture arrangement are
    important

5
Node Components
  • Required hardware and software
  • Video conferencing software
  • Microphones
  • Cameras
  • Computers
  • And more

6
Node Components
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Venues
  • Nodes meet in virtual spaces
  • Junction of interconnected video and audio
    streams
  • Computing resources enabling human interaction
  • Future Computational grid applications/data
  • Enables a variety of collaborations
  • Large-scale distributed meetings (conferences)
  • Work sessions
  • Seminars, lectures, training
  • Any collaboration benefiting from live video and
    audio
  • 3

8
Future
  • Human interface to the grid
  • Computing resources are organized into the grid
  • Access Grid enables human communication over the
    grid

9
Version 2.0 Architecture
  • 5

10
Community
  • Industry
  • Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Johnson Johnson,
    Microsoft, Motorola
  • Educational and Research Institutions
  • 75 nationwide sites
  • Private, public, and government-funded
    institutions
  • 15 international sites
  • Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Italy,
    Japan, Korea, Netherlands, United Kingdom
  • 6

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Meetings
  • Sizes of meetings
  • One or two other sites
  • Small group of sites (primary design point)
  • Large group of sites
  • Sharing of applications and data helps create
    collaborative work sessions

12
Videoconferencing
  • One or two other sites
  • CAVE application (YG) seminar to plan an art
    installation
  • University at Buffalo, Indiana University
  • Informal meetings, discussions
  • Technical help for fixing Access Grid node
    problems

13
Videoconferencing
  • Small group of sites
  • Virtual News Conference Academic Excellence for
    All Urban Students (EVL hosted 15 attendees from
    the CPS system)
  • NSFs Urban Systemic Initiative improved math and
    science scores

8
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Videoconferencing
  • Small group of sites
  • NSF CISE Grand Challenges in e-Science Workshop
    (EVL hosted conference had 30 attendees)
  • Discussions about the utilization of high
    performance computing will help advance science
    and engineering

10
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Videoconferencing
  • Large group of sites
  • Chatauqua 1999, 2000 (EVL presented VR work,
    Chatauqua 2000)
  • The first large scale Access Grid meeting ever
    conducted.
  • SC Global 2001 (EVL attended)
  • Live from certain Denver venues of Supercomputing
    2001
  • Remote international and national sites in
    attendance

12
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Videoconferencing
  • EVL applications
  • Videotape on video stream (no audio)
  • Integration of Polycom into the Access Grid
  • Overlays
  • Art

17
Remote Computer Access
  • Virtual Network Computing (VNC)
  • Created by ATT Laboratories
  • Displays the desktop of the computer
  • Can remotely control a computer
  • Advantages
  • High resolution still images
  • Better than viewing compressed video streams of a
    still image

18
Shared Slide Presentation
  • DPPT (Distributed PowerPoint)
  • Created by Argonne National Laboratory
  • Uses MS PowerPoint plus additional software
  • Remote site commands local slides changes
  • Disadvantages
  • Animations cannot be run
  • Audience cannot see a remote mouse pointer
  • RPPT (Remote PowerPoint)
  • Overcomes disadvantages of DPPT

19
Video-On-Demand
  • Voyager
  • Developed by Argonne National Laboratory
  • Allows the recording and playback of
    videoconferences
  • Used by EVL to record students masters thesis
    defense
  • Future improvements
  • Synchronized recording and playback of data
    streams
  • Data from scientific instrumentation, audio, and
    video

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Continuum
  • Group-to-Group Collaboration
  • Distributed, collaborative work environment
  • Advanced collaboration, computation, and
    visualization technologies
  • Access Grid, AGAVE, Access Grid-to-Go and VVP,
    AccessBot, TeraVision, tiled high-resolution
    displays
  • Investigators
  • Dr. Jason Leigh, Kyoung Park, Atul Nayak, Mitch
    Theys
  • 13

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Continuum Components
14
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Continuum
  • Access Grid Augmented Virtual Environment (AGAVE)
  • Uses a low-cost PC workstation and two projectors
  • Collaborators share immersive 3D stereoscopic
    content 15, 16


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Continuum
  • Access Grid-to-Go Pocket PC platform
  • Purposes
  • View streaming visualizations from immersive
    environments
  • Attend meetings remotely
  • Monitor remote equipment
  • Future
  • Audio reception
  • Video and audio transmission

13
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Costs
  • Equipment cost 42,625-46,665
  • Computing equipment 12,455
  • Network equipment 750
  • Other equipment (monitors, KVM switch) 1,800
  • Audio configuration
  • Small 6,524
  • Large 10,564
  • Video cameras (4 Sony EVI-D30) 5,196
  • Projectors (3 Epson 710c) 15,900
  • Cabling and mounting costs extra 18

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Alternate Node
  • Mid-level specifications
  • Computer Pentium III 845 MHz, Windows 2000, 786
    MB RAM
  • Network 100 Mbps, multicast
  • Audio PC Speakers, echo cancellation unit,
    microphone
  • Video 1 camera and capture card
  • Display 1 large display screen (could substitute
    with projector)
  • Software Access Grid-in-a-Box Software
  • Entry level software from VRVS of Cal Tech.19

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Evaluation and Deployment
  • Access Grid Documentation Project (AGDP)
  • Access Grid Node Minimum Requirements
  • http//www.accessgrid.org/agdp/guide/min-req.html
  • Access Grid Hardware Specification
  • http//www.accessgrid.org/agdp/guide/spec.html
  • Building an Access Grid Node
  • http//www.accessgrid.org/agdp/guide/building-an-a
    ccess-grid-node.html

27
Support
  • Access Grid Documentation Project (AGDP)
  • http//www.accessgrid.org/agdp/
  • E-mail
  • Technical help mailing list ag-tech_at_mcs.anl.gov
  • Individuals at different institutions
  • Interactive help
  • Chat rooms
  • Videoconferencing

28
Questions and Comments
29
References
  1. http//www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/fl/accessgrid/ag-retreat
    -2001/proceedings-retreat/stevens-theaccessgridpro
    ject.pdf
  2. http//www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/web-mail-archive/lists
    /ag-tech/1999/06/msg00000.html
  3. Text from http//www.accessgrid.org/
  4. Image from earlier version of the Access Grid
    Media Handout produced by Argonne National
    Laboratory
  5. Image and concepts from Open Architecture and
    Interfaces for Access Grid 2.0 (Ivan Judson--
    Argonne National Laboratory) in
    http//www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/fl/accessgrid/ag-retreat
    -2002/proceedings/judson.pdf
  6. Complete list at http//www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/fl/acce
    ssgrid/ag-nodes.htm
  7. Image from http//calder.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ACCESS/Even
    ts/Pics/2001-06-28_nsf/nsf18.jpg
  8. Image from http//www.evl.uic.edu/activity/templat
    e_act_project.php3?indi148
  9. Image from http//www.evl.uic.edu/activity/templat
    e_act_project.php3?indi142
  10. Image from http//www.evl.uic.edu/activity/NSF/pre
    sent.html
  11. Image from http//archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/alliance/c
    hautauqua/Ohio2000/chautauquaday3/plenarysession/p
    ages/P6150100.htm
  12. Image courtesy of Bob Huebert of Artic Region
    Supercomputing Center
  13. Text and images from http//www.evl.uic.edu/cavern
    /continuum/indexmain.html
  14. Image from http//www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/continuum
    /thinkbig.jpg
  15. Text from http//www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/agave/
  16. Text from http//www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/papers/AGA
    VE.pdf
  17. image from http//www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/agave/AGA
    VE.ppt
  18. Text from http//www.accessgrid.org/agdp/guide/spe
    c.html
  19. http//www.vrvs.org
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