Jason Pepas wrote: > Hi, > > This will be my first time using the Access Grid. > > It is my understanding that there is a central server (a venue) which > all of the clients join in order to create a conference. > > Is it the case that people reserve room on an existing venue (like the > Argonne Natl Laboratory Institution), or do they setup their own venue > server?
Hi Jason, A Venue is some sort of "Virtual Room" having some multicast adress/ports for Audio and Video. Everyone who connects his Venueclient to that room will see all of the nodes doing so as well. Addtionally everyone in a virtual venue can share applications and data within the other participants in that room. Everyone can setup his own venue-server, hosting venues for other people. BUT there are some BIGGER venue servers at e.g. ANL and NCSA, acting as a centralized meeting points for the community. NCSA even has that very nice scheduler http://agschedule.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ where you can reserve rooms for your meetings and invite other sites to join you meetings, upload data in advance, reserve "closed meetings". So this is very convenient. So I would say: If you want to collaborate with people from all over the world, use the ANL or NCSA. If you are planning to have meetings with a closed community most of the time (in your local region), setup you own VenueServer... Am I right community?? Regards, Martin Polak GUP-University Linz (Austria) http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/accessgrid
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