Transcript A survival guide for basic user doing AccessGrid meeting

“Only true if you work in a big
organization”
Jean-Michel Batto
Aristote/ June 27th 2008

A project involving
ANL – Chicago suburbs
University of Chicago
INRA Jouy-en-Josas
->3 locations
A
team 8 of biologistbioinfomaticians meeting
monthly since march 2006
 Desktop installation
A
non computer specialist
 A biologist
 Somebody willing to use the AccessGrid
like driving car
 Relies on CS support and IT staff
Write / Read
Plan B : Chat screen in the Venue Client
Share data : FTP, easy with Venue Client
Shared presentations : ok
Speak / Hear
Relies on :
Mike and
Speakers
Working drivers
The RAT
Send video / watch video
Relies on :
Webcam and display
Not so tricky to decide : VIC
Génétique Microbienne
INRA Jouy-en-Josas
IT Staff
MCS
Argonne National
Laboratory
Ports opened
Ports opened
The Firewall
The Internet
 When
: It happens on Friday 5 p.m.
• Few IT Staff available
• Friday 5 p.m. is a common schedule because the
timeshift between Chicago and Paris.
 What
: A non-blocking problem
• AccessGrid client is working
• No Sound
• Hum / noises
• No video
 No
video
• Quick to decide the issue
 Hum
noises
• Check the plug
 No
sound
• Check the RAT
 Validated
on Windows XP / with an
already tested AG.
• Start AG, only once (don’t click too much)
• Go into a venue
 Change
the bridge -> works as the
unicast/multicast is getting reinitialized
 Turn off AG client / Restart client ->
works as the ports may changes (if a
Firewall is filtering) as it’s Windows that
give the ports
 Turn off the computer / Restart (not
 AccessGrid
is mature and works fluently
• For example : shared browser / shared ppt
 you
have some local requirements
• It relies on the operating system for opening the
internet ports
• It relies on the IT staff for fixing the filtering
rules
• It relies on the ability of the end-user to fix quick
problem (hum, defective microphone,…)
 Thanks
• Tom Uram
• Matthew Cohoon, Jenifer Zinner, Kosei Tanaka,
Sabine Autret, Christopher Henry, Philippe
Noirot, Fangfang Xia, Deborah Hanson, Mindy,
Rebecca Koranda, Edmond Jolivet
• S.Dusko Ehrlich
• Rick Stevens