This page describes software contributed to the Access Grid project. The software may have been developed by the Access Grid developers, or by someone external to the core developers. In either case, these packages are currently not distributed with the core toolkit.
Software has been contributed in the following categories. Please do add your contributions here, and create new categories as needed.
Shared Applications
- Shared Desktop
AGTk Version: 2.3
Platform: Windows, Linux, OSX
Location: http://www.westgrid.ca/support/collab/research-agshareddesktop.php
Contributed by: Todd Zimmerman, WestGrid
Description: The Shared Desktop Access Grid shared application listens for other Shared Desktop users to share their desktop via VNC - then offers them to the user. It also allows the user to share their own desktop to the other connected sites.. - Shared VizServer
AGTk Version: 2.3
Platform: Windows, Linux
Location: http://www.westgrid.ca/support/collab/research-agvizserver.php
Contributed by: Brian Corrie and Todd Zimmerman, Simon Fraser University
Description: A shared application for integrating SGI's visualization server (VizServer) software into the AG. VizServer is a collaborative visualization platform that allows collaborators to visualize data sets on a large scale visualization machine and view those visualizations on their desktop. This shared application is not for everyone (you do need the SGI server), but for those people that have access to an SGI visualization machine that runs the VizServer software, this can be a very powerful tool... - Venue VNC Server
AGTk Version: 2.3
Platform: Windows, Linux, OSX
Location: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid/software/releases/2.3/patches/VenueVNCServer.py[[BR]] Contributed by: AG Development Team
Description: The server component of the VenueVNC shared application (client included in release). - Venue Customizer
AGTk Version: 2.3
Platform: Windows
Location: http://iit130033.iit.nrc.ca/AVC/index.html
Contributed by: AVC development team (see webpage for more info)
Description: AVC is a proof-of-concept shared application for customizing AG virtual venues - Shared Movie player
Platform: Windows
Description: Shared Movie Player allows users to collaboratively view movies and listen to audio files
AGTk Version: 2.1.2
Contributed by: Bob Olson, ANL <olson@mcs.anl.gov>
Location: http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~olson/AG/snaps/sharedmovie-setup-1.00.exe
AGTk Version: 2.3
Contributed by: Dioselin Gonzalez <dioselin@purdue.edu>
Location: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~dagonzal/sc04/SMV.zip
Instructions: Unzip file, then run 'agpm.py -f sharedmovie.app' - Shared Rasmol
AGTk Version: 2.3
Platform: Windows, Linux
Location: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~turam/AG/SharedRasmol.html
Contributed by: Bob Olson <olson@mcs.anl.gov>, Tom Uram <turam@mcs.anl.gov>
Description: Shared Rasmol allows users to collaboratively view 3d molecule models
- ImmersaView Launcher
AGTk Version: 2.1.2
Platform: Anything that has the following installed: at least Python 2.2, wxPython (version?)
Location: http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/rg/20031022_spale/
Contributed by: Allan Spale, Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago <aspale@evl.uic.edu>
Description: This software assumes the installation of ImmersaView (runs on Linux, Windows, Mac; downloadable from: http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/agave/immersaview/). The concepts presented with ImmersaView Launcher could be adopted to launch just about any program. Please note that this software uses XML-RPC and might pose a potential security threat because of the functionalities provided by a customized XML-RPC server. To learn more about XML-RPC, please visit: http://www.xmlrpc.com/ .
- Basic Image
Platform: Neutral
Location: (AGTk 2.3) http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~turam/AG/AGBasicImage.py (see page below for installation instructions) Location: (AGTk 2.2) http://trecc-dev.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~semeraro/Stupid_AG_Tricks/default.htm
Contributed by: Dave Semeraro, NCSA
Description: For sharing images of many file formats, and basic annotation of these images.
- Shared Question Tool
AGTk Version: 2.2, 2.3
Platform: Neutral
Location: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~lefvert/PROJECTS/ACCESS_GRID/SQTOOL/SharedQuestionTool.htm
Contributed by: Susanne Lefvert
Description: Tool for sending and receiving questions at a seminar.
Node Services
JPEG Video Services
AGTk Version: 2.3
Platform: Windows, Linux
Location: http://www.ap-accessgrid.org/jpgvideo
Contributed by: Chris Willing <willing@itee.uq.edu.au>
Description: Node services which enable sending/receiving of JPG video streams. See web page for more info.
Media Lecture Board Service
AGTk Version: 2.3
Platform: Windows, Linux
Location: http://www.ap-accessgrid.org/mlbservice
Contributed by: Chris Willing <willing@itee.uq.edu.au>
Description: MLBService wraps Media Lecture Board (a shared whiteboard) as a node service. See web page for more info.
MPEG4 Video Services
AGTk Version: 2.2, 2.3
Platform: Linux
Location:
Contributed by: Barz Hsu <barz@nchc.org.tw>
Description: Video producer and consumer services using MPEG4-enabled vic. Note that the standard vic will not be able to see the MPEG4 video sent by these services. Copy these services to /etc/AccessGrid/NodeServices to use them.
Helper Applications
