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Friday, February 11, 2005  

Advanced Collaboration with the Access Grid
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/daw/

Access Grid attempts to meet the challenges of embracing human factors in remote collaboration. Michael Daw describes the system and its claim to be an Advanced Collaboration Environment. Collaboration between institutions based in different cities, countries or continents is becoming the norm in both commercial and academic worlds. The ability to attend meetings and interact with people effectively without incurring all the negative implications associated with travel - such as cost, expense, environmental impact and reduction in productivity - is a truly worthwhile goal. Access Grid was invented by the Futures Group within Argonne National Laboratory in 1998 as a response to perceived weaknesses of traditional videoconferencing in handling group-to-group collaboration between large numbers of sites and its lack of emphasis on advanced data sharing. Access Grid takes the concept of collaboration further than merely sharing voice and video into what is termed as an Advanced Collaboration Environment. he Access Grid is based upon the metaphor of virtual venues. Just as one can meet other people in physical rooms and interact with objects in that room, virtual venues are places in which participants can see and hear each other. They are also places in which virtual objects can be left, such as data, applications or services. The original intention of the Access Grid was to do for humans what the Grid does for machines. Recent releases of research software, known as 'Access Grid 2', have focussed more on integrating core Grid technology, utilising X.509 certificates for security and looking more at the integration of applications and services to support 'virtual organisations', such as groups of biologists or physicists who work across institutional boundaries. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

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