Tuesday, August 5, 2003

NCSA Seminar Series
How-to Install a Personal Interface to the Grid (PIG) on your Laptop
Michael Miller, Applications Engineer, NCSA
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CDT
Room E102A, SRP Building Z, 1901 S. First St., Champaign, IL

Bring your own laptop computer to this seminar and the presenter will take you step-by-step through the process of installing a Personal Interface to the Grid (PIG). You will be able to log in on the PIG so that you can communicate with another AG site, and participate in an Access Grid meeting. At the end of this session you will have a functional PIG installed on your laptop and will be able to communicate with other users. The presenter will take you through a Windows install (minimum is Windows 2000 or Windows XP). He will also take Linux users through the Linux install (RedHat 7.3, problems exist with RedHat version 8).

The minimum hardware requirements for installing a PIG on your laptop are:

• 1 gigabyte processor
• 256 mg of memory
• 1 inexpensive headset with microphone
• Optional: Logitech camera pro 4000 and a microphone

The NCSA Seminar Series is a set of presentations on high performance computing and related research. Typically, the seminars are presented on Tuesday afternoons and are available onsite at the presenting institution and remotely via the Access Grid. The venue for the NCSA Seminar Series in Full Sail. For more details regarding the venue, please refer to: http://agschedule.ncsa.uiuc.edu/meetingdetails.asp?MID=862 . All Access Grid sites are welcome to participate in this series. If your site would like to participate as either a remote host or presenter, contact Mary Ellen Michael at memichae@ncsa.uiuc.edu.