Access Grid Technology

Introduction

This is a Joint Session with Chester & North Wales branch, linking Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Daresbury Laboratory, NEWI (Wrexham) and Bangor University.

Abstract

Access Grid is an advanced collaboration environment that has been described as “videoconferencing on steroids”. It can support a huge number of sites interacting simultaneously with an emphasis on effective distributed collaboration between groups. It was invented in 1997 in order to provide a human interface to the Grid and continues to be an accessible route to Grid technologies. There are over a hundred Access Grid nodes across UK academia and thousands of users worldwide. This talk will look at the technology in more detail, describe some interesting use cases in science, social science and the arts, update the audience on current developments and look to the future of Access Grid considering similar technologies such as Skype and ConferenceXP

Committee owner: Brian Day

BrianDay /07.07.2007 11:17/