History of Voyager

Voyager began as a scalable audio and video server that recorded and played back MBone sessions. Way back in 1994 the first Voyager Server was demonstrated at SuperComputing '94. This version of Voyager ran on a 12 node IBM SP-2. The clients were running on IBM AIX 4.2 Workstations. The following year, at SuperComputing '95, during the I-WAY events Voyager was used to record and playback some of the technical presentations. There were also demonstrations using the streaming audio and video that Voyager enabled, most prominant was an IBM Press Conference held at an IBM facility in New York. The press was invited to both NY and the show floor at SuperComputing. It was a great success.

Since then we have extended and used Voyager to record and playback Virtual Reality tracking streams and Access Grid meetings. Work continues on the core of Voyager to continue to provide a useful archiving service for more and more types of data.

Who Can Help

Voyager is being developed in an Open Source Model. That means that anybody is able to participate in the development. In order to get involved join the mailing lists and grab the code. Then start working on it!