Clarification: The townhall will be on Tuesday, December 6.
On 12/1/05 12:24 PM, Thomas D. Uram wrote: > The December Townhall is scheduled for Tuesday, December 5, at 10:00AM CST > (16:00 UTC). It will be held in the Argonne National Laboratory venue > on the > institutional venue server (Go to > https://ivs.mcs.anl.gov:9000/Venues/default, then > Government Institutions Lobby, then Argonne National Lab). > > Invited Speaker: Gareth Lewis, Reading University > Multicast Application Sharing Tool (MAST) > > MAST is an application sharing tool, which has been developed for the > eminerals project in the UK. We have groups of scientists distributed > around the country who already use the Access grid to discuss their > work. The main problem they had was to visualise information between > each other in a simple manner and between institutes with strict > firewall policies. MAST has been developed to overcome these problems by > using Multicast to send the visual data to each of the participants. We > have also created service scripts so that MAST can be loaded > automatically by the AG when you enter a new Venue. I will talk about > the development of MAST, and what feedback we have received from users > in our project. > > There will be a second session held for those in the Asia-Pacific > region, at > 6:00PM CST (Wednesday, 00:00 UTC). Of course, anyone is welcome to > attend this > session, if it's more agreeable with their schedules. > > ANL will be running bridges in the Argonne venue for this meeting. > >
