1. Access Grid Conference Facility at Boston University Ariella Rebbi and Jennifer Teig von Hoffman, Scientific Computing and Visualization, Office of Information Technology

2. What is the Access Grid?

3. The Access Grid Video conferencing and data sharing over high performance networks, such as Internet2’s Abilene network Closely related to computational Grids, a current movement in high- performance computing

4. A World-Wide Network Approximately 90 Access Grid locations Installed in 11 countries, including: China Germany Italy Japan United Kingdom

5. An Open-Source Project All Access Grid software is either open- source or commodity (ie, Windows) All Access Grid hardware is readily available, off-the-shelf As an open-source project, the Access Grid lends itself to be adapted to many different circumstances and needs

6. Events on the Access Grid A sampling of activities from September 1999 - present

7. Alliance Chautauqua 1999 George Sherman Union conference auditorium 8 participating Access Grid sites, including Moscow State University

8. Alliance Chautauqua 1999 The Access Grid is "one of the most compelling glimpses into the future I've seen since I first saw NCSA Mosaic." Larry Smarr, NCSA

9. Alliance Chautauqua 2000 Boston University participated as a remote site Conference hosted by University of Kansas and Ohio Supercomputer Center

10. Alliance Chautauqua 2000

11. Supercomputing 2000, Dallas

12. Chemistry Dept. Interviews The need: Assess graduate student applicants’ language fluency and proficiency, at a distance (from China) The strategy: Collaborate with Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronomics to hold interviews over the Access Grid

13. Chemistry Dept. Interviews

16. SC Global 2001 The first truly global technical conference on the Grid, based in Denver, Colorado, November 2001 36 participating sites, representing 9 countries plus the South Pole Led by a volunteer management team, including Boston University staff

17. SC Global 2001 (seen here at University of Manchester, UK)

18. Gallery on the Grid A project of HiPArt http://scv.bu.edu/hipart/ Debuted at the Boston Cyberarts Festival, May 2000 Additional showings during SC Global 2001

19. Gallery on the Grid Integrated use of Access Grid and Virtual Reality technologies “Soft, Fluffy, and Virtual” Cindy Ludlam “Tracer” Deborah and Richard Cornell

20. “Soft, Fluffy, and Virtual”

23. “Tracer”

26. Other Access Grid Events Workshops on computational science Collaborative meetings Seminars on Access Grid use Distributed music and dance performances National Science Foundation site visits

27. Boston University Participates in Access Grid Development

28. The Documentation Project Primary source of user documentation for installing, administering, and operating Access Grid nodes Led by Boston University staff

29. The Development Team Developed Windows installer software for Access Grid Toolkit 1.0

30. For More Information...

31. Recommended Reading Access Grid Conference Facility: http://scv.bu.edu/accessgrid/ contact: accessgrid@bu.edu Access Grid Web Site: http://www.accessgrid.org/ contact: ag-mcs@mcs.anl.gov