The Access Grid Toolkit (AGTk)
			
			       2010-08-19
				
	    http://www.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid
	    
		       The Access Grid Project

		      http://www.accessgrid.org/

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OVERVIEW OF THE ACCESS GRID TOOLKIT

The Access Grid Toolkit (AGTk) provides users, developers, and service
providers with the software components required to explore next
generation collaborative environments.

Please review the license on the software found in the file COPYING.txt.

. For Users

Users of the Access Grid seeking to collaborate can share audio, video
and text with the basic toolkit. The experience is much like
traditional videoconferencing except that it's multipoint, multistream
video, with hands-free, echo-free, full-duplex audio. Additionally,
the basic AGTk provides data sharing mechanisms for users to store
data in the Virtual Venue, and to share applications using mechanisms
provided by the Venue Server, including shared presentation viewing
and shared web browsing.


. For Developers

Developers wishing to contribute to the Access Grid Project or the
Access Grid Toolkit should get familiar with the source code and the
tools, and then decide what part of the AGTk to work on.  Developer
documentation is available at http://www.accessgrid.org/developer.

Information about past and ongoing projects is available at
http://www.accessgrid.org/projects.

Also, the ag-dev mailing list is a great place to discuss development
work.  Subscription information is online at 
http://www.accessgrid.org/mailinglists.


. For Service Providers

Individuals wishing to provide AGTk Services should first host some
Virtual Venues through a Virtual Venue Server. 

OBTAINING THE TOOLKIT

Download the latest snapshot of the toolkit from
http://www.accessgrid.org/software

SVN Access is available; information can be found at
http://www.accessgrid.org/developer

INSTALLATION

Please see the INSTALL file for the appropriate platform and OS.

BUG REPORTING

Please report bugs using the Bugzilla interface found at
http://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/accessgrid

DOCUMENTATION

In addition to the included documentation, more documentation can be
found on the Access Grid web site:
http://www.accessgrid.org/documentation

MAILING LISTS

There are several mailing lists for discussing various aspects of the
AGTk. Information about these lists, including how to subscribe, can be
found at http://www.accessgrid.org/mailinglists.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We would like to acknowledge all of those who have helped make the
AGTk by either providing requirements, reviewing documents, working on
software, or providing operational support, training and enthusiasm
since the beginning of the Access Grid Project in the Winter/Spring of
1998/1999.  If anybody is missing please, Please, PLEASE, let us
know. All those we'd like to acknowledge are listed here.

Groups and Institutions
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- The Department of Energy's Office of Science
      http://www.science.doe.gov/

- The National Science Foundation
      http://www.nsf.gov/

- The National Center for Supercomputing Applications  
      http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

- Microsoft Research
      http://www.research.microsoft.com/

- The Globus Project
      http://www.globus.org/

- The pyGlobus CoG Project
      http://www-itg.lbl.gov/gtg/projects/pyGlobus/

- The European Access Grid Project
      http://euroag.accessgrid.org/

- The Asia Pacific Access Grid Project
      http://apag.accessgrid.org/


Individuals
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- Adam Koniak
- Allan Spale
- Andrew Heisen
- Andrew Rowley
- Andrew Swan
- Audun Vaaler
- Barbara A. Kucera
- Bob Riddle
- Brett D. Ellis
- Brian Corrie
- Chris Greenhalgh
- Chris Lewis
- Chris Osland
- Christoph Willing
- Cindy Sievers
- Colin Perkins
- David Bernholdt
- Deb Agarwal
- Derek Piper
- Don Morton
- Doug Kosovic
- Ed Brannin
- Gurcharan S. Khanna
- Hiroyuki Komatsu
- Jackie Kern
- Jason Bell
- Jennifer Teig von Hoffman
- John Shalf
- Kabe Vanderbaan
- Kazuyuki Shudo
- Lawrence A. Rowe
- Leslie Southern
- Luc Renambot
- Markus Buchhorn
- Matthew Wolf
- Michael Braitmaier
- Michael Daw
- Namgon Kim
- Paul B. Huang
- Piers O'Hanlon
- Randy Groves
- Rhys Hawkins
- Robert McCown
- Roman Breuer
- Roger Impey
- Sangwoo Han
- Shawn Davis
- Stephen P. Booth
- Tom Coffin
- Wesley Miaw