Network Information
The Access Grid at the University of Florida
There are currently four departments with Access Grid (AG) nodes at the University of Florida:
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Astronomy / Net-Services
- Space Sciences Research Building Room 217 (diagram)
- Primary Contact: Thad/Chris Wilson, wilsotc@cns.ufl.edu, (352) 392-2061
- Secondary Contact: Network Services, net-services@ufl.edu
- This site is a portable node.
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Digital Worlds Institute (news)
- Fine Arts A Room 109 and CSE Room 413
- Primary Contact: Andy Quay, andy@digitalworlds.ufl.edu, (352) 294-2040
- Secondary Contact: John Polefko, jpole@ufl.edu, (352) 392-6793
- This site has one permanent and two portable nodes.
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Health Science Center
- Health Science Center Room C1-11
- Primary Contact: John Hughes, jphughes@ufl.edu, (352) 392-2733
- Secondary Contact: Al Murray, amurray@ufl.edu, (352) 846-3514
- This site is a permanent node.
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Physics
- New Physics Building Room 2201
- Primary Contact: Brent Nelson, brent@phys.ufl.edu, (352) 392-8083
- Secondary Contact: David Hansen, hansen@phys.ufl.edu, (352) 392-4028
- This site is a permanent node.
Scheduling of AG resources should be coordinated through the contacts listed above.
Recommended Configuration
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Display Machine
- 4U rackmount Supermicro Server 6040 (370DE6 board)
- Dual Intel PIII 1GHz processors, 512MB RAM
- IBM 18.3GB SCSI hard disk
- Matrox G450 AGP video card
- Matrox G450 PCI video card
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Audio Capture Machine
- 1U rackmount Supermicro Server 6010L (370DLR board)
- Dual Intel PIII 1GHz processors, 512MB RAM
- Creative Labs SB128 PCI card
- IBM 18.3GB SCSI hard disk
- (use on-board video here)
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Video Capture Machine
- 4U rackmount Supermicro Server 6040 (370DE6 board)
- Dual Intel PIII 1GHz processors, 512MB RAM
- IBM 18.3GB SCSI hard disk
- ATI 8MB AGP video card (need since no on-board video)
- 4 Hauppauge WinTV cards (model 401 w/svideo)
- Most Access Grid nodes use projectors to display the multicast video streams. The Digital Worlds node here at UF is using several 42" and 50" plasma screens instead. The two models being used are the Pioneer PDP-502MX (50") and the Fujitsu PDS4221 (42").
AG Resources
- The official Access Grid website
- The AG-TECH Mailing List
- UCL and Open Mash Multicast Tools
- Virtual Rooms Videoconferencing System (VRVS)
- Video Conferencing White Papers