[Allosphere-wg] Re: [Tdg] Allosphere Brain Demo

[JoAnn Kuchera-Morin]

Hi Bo,

We should find out if Larry Zins is taking care of lab repairs...
On Jul 26, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Bo Bell wrote:

> For what it's worth: the DVD burner on the G5 in 2809 is not working 
> properly. I don't think that anyone keeps up with such things these 
> days, but I wanted to put it out there. I for one would welcome the 
> switch, so as to have a more powerful and reliable machine in the lab.
>
> -B
>
> On Jul 26, 2007, at 3:09 PM, Graham Wakefield wrote:
>
>> Right-o
>>
>> Just let me know what day you want to do it (any day except Tue).
>>
>> G
>>
>> On Jul 26, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Brent Oster wrote:
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>>>
>>> You can still use the Mac as a master and the PC’s as render nodes.
>>>
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>>>
>>> We’d like to have the Mac that is currently in 2809 running as the 
>>> master so we can use the other one (currently in Allosphere) as a 
>>> modeling and data processing workstation.
>>>
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>>> From: tdg-bounces at mat.ucsb.edu [mailto:tdg-bounces at mat.ucsb.edu] On 
>>> Behalf Of Graham Wakefield
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 1:09 PM
>>> To: tdg at mat.ucsb.edu
>>> Subject: Re: [Tdg] Allosphere Brain Demo
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> I'm pretty out of date with what is happening in the sphere!
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Before, we had the MacPro running as the 'master' node, handling 
>>> user input, the main navigation and interaction code etc, and also 
>>> responsible for audio, and the two Windows boxes as 'render' nodes 
>>> doing the GL. The 'master' and 'render' nodes interacted via UDP 
>>> multicast. The separation of duties alleviated CPU resources quite 
>>> nicely, and allowed for scalability up to many more 
>>> renderers/projectors.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Are we moving to a single computer setup, or will there still be a 
>>> separation of controller / audio / graphics? I'm not sure a single 
>>> machine is going to handle both the audio and the graphics smoothly.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> BTW, until the brain project is ported to a C++ (Mint?) base, it's 
>>> XP or OSX only because of Max/MSP/Jitter.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> On Jul 26, 2007, at 12:39 PM, Brent Oster wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We are configuring an HP XW9400 with 32-bit windows / 32-bit Linux 
>>> dual boot. It will have an nVidia Quaddro FX5600 board in it.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>
>>> From: tdg-bounces at mat.ucsb.edu [mailto:tdg-bounces at mat.ucsb.edu] On 
>>> Behalf Of Graham Wakefield
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 11:47 AM
>>> To: tdg at mat.ucsb.edu
>>> Cc: allosphere-wg at create.ucsb.edu
>>> Subject: Re: [Tdg] Allosphere Brain Demo
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> I should be able to do this, I think! Certainly I have the new 
>>> content ready to go anyway.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> What are the new workstations?
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> On Jul 26, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Brent Oster wrote:
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>>>
>>>
>>> I was wondering if somebody would be willing to port the Allosphere 
>>> brain demo over to another workstation, and add the new content for 
>>> us?
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> We’re trying to consolidate all of our demos onto a single 
>>> workstation so that we don’t have to keep swapping cables and moving 
>>> projectors every time someone wants to demo what we have on the 
>>> Allosphere.
>>>
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>>> Graham Wakefield
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>>> wakefield at mat.ucsb.edu
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>>> grrr waaa
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>>> www.grahamwakefield.net
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Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
Director,  Allosphere Research Laboratory
Media Arts and Technology Initiatives, MAT-CNSI
Media Arts and Technology, California Nanosystems Institute
Professor, Graduate Program in Media Arts and Technology
Professor of Composition, Department of Music
Director, Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology
University of California, Santa Barbara
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