Synchronous Distance Education

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Collaborations over the Access Grid at
Monika Rabarison monika.k.rabarison_at_jsums.edu
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The Access Grid at JSU

• First Minority Serving Institution (MSI) to
  have an
• AG Node
• Active member of the AG community since 2002
• Personal Nodes (on PCs and Laptops)
• JSUvisNode (Mobile Node)
• JSUeNode (Full Room Node)

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Personal NodesPersonal Interface to the Access
Grid (PIGs)

• PC or Laptop
• Camera
• Headset

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JSUvisNode

• Mobile three-machine node
• 2 cameras
• Up to 4 microphones
• Up to 2 projectors
• Echo cancellation

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JSUeNode

• Four-machine node
• 3 cameras
• Up to 8 microphones
• 3 projectors
• Echo cancellation

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Collaborative Research

• AG node is collocated
• with FLEX visualization system
• Real-time collaborative visualization
• with research partners
• within the state of Mississippi

• Projects
• High Performance Visualization Center Initiative
  (HPVCI)
• High Performance Computing Visualization
  Initiative (HPCVI)

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HPC Summer Institutes

• Scenarios
• JSU HPC SI participants attend a session and/or
  present their projects.
• JSU staff offers a presentation to remote HPC SI
  sites.
• JSU faculty and students attend workshops
  offered at remote HPC SI sites.

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Thesis Defenses

• Masters Thesis Defense
• Computer Science student at JSU
• Advisor, jury members,
• and audience at JSU
• Co-Advisor at Lawrence Berkeley
• National Laboratory (LBNL)

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Meetings

• Monthly Access Grid Town Hall
• Weekly MSI Network meeting
• Meetings with research partners

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Synchronous Distance Education

• Programming Environment Teaching (PET) program
• Community Grids Lab at Indiana University
• Department of Computer Science at Jackson State
  University
• High Performance Computing classes

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Workshops and Conferences
Fifth Virtual Conference on Genomics and
Bioinformatics (October 25-28, 2005)
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The Access Grid for JSU?

• Eases collaborations across organizational,
  geographical,
• social, and national boundaries.
• Eliminates/Saves travel time and money
• Saves on cost of communications
• Keeps that feeling at home while opening
  doors wide to
• the World

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Challenging Minds, Changing Lives
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