Hi Marie-Noelle Here is a run down of machines that we currently use with configurations.
Cardiffs configurations with AG2.3 software. We have been running a number of different configurations. As perminent nodes Our main grid node is the standard 4 machine configuration. Our display machine has 6 video heads (One Quadra 4 head PCI card and 1 Matrox G450 dual head). On a dual Pentium III 1Gig processors. Never had a problem with this. Running under XP. With a 1 Gig Ethernet Card The video capture has 4 Hauppage Capture cards (Original spec) running under Fedora again Dual P3 1Gig. With 100 M Ethercard The Audio machine is standard SoundBlaster card (Orig spec) P3 1 gig running under XP. 100 M Ethercard We also have a lecture theatre set up as a PIG (Done this summer)which is 1 PC running Fedora P4 3 gig. 3 Osprey capture cards. SoundBlaster audio card and Dual head Matrox G550 We also have a PIG P4 3gig PC with USB Logitech camera and built in sound card. Another node is a desktop node P4 2.8 gig with 3 monitors attached to a Matrox Parhelia Card. Video via Logitech USB camera and. SoundBlaster Audio card We have several laptop PIG configurations for members of staff. In addition we have a "Mobile Grid" Which consists of two machines. Video capture and display is done on a Dual Xeon processor, Osprey Capture Cards and Matrox G200 4 Head Video Card Audio capture on a P4 2.8 Gig Proc. with SoundBlaster Card The Mobile grid is taken to various exhibitions around Wales. We have successfully demonstrated the Access Grid over Satallite links at 1 gig. and even used Viz Server at the same time (Bit slow though would not suggest it). Not sure if this is any use. All the best Mike
