This page contains a number of useful links to Access Grid Room related websites and communities using the Access Grid Software. It aslo provides access to various AGR related presentations and documents.

International

The Access Grid Project

Australasian

Australian Access Grid Project community
Central Queensland University High Performance Computing
University of Technology Sydney Access Grid Room
VPAC (Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing) Access Grid Room

AG Seminars and their organization: the Canadian experience

One of the chapters in a book that is in press (2008) includes a chapter, authored by Jonathan Borwein, that gives a comprehensive review of the background, history and practice of the Canadian AG coast-to-coast seminar series. The original preprint (pdf) is still available, and also Guidelines for Managing a Distributed Seminar.

AG Presentation Protocols (for lectures and seminars)

The Protocols are provided HERE to facilitate the optimization of the quality and reliability of the AG collaborative experience. It is generally desirable to observe the Presentation Protocols, but it is a requirement for participation in several special AG events (such as Terry Tao’s Clay-Mahler Lectures and The AMSI Optimization AGR Colloquium Series).

Seminar Programs

A meeting held at La Trobe University in December 2006 established a national seminar program across the Access Grid comprising three components – loosely Pure, Applied and Statistics. This series will have its own dedicated seminar times based on eastern seaboard time zones and AMSI will be responsible for the identification of a convenor for each of the component series in consultation with the respective societies. This national program commenced second semester 2007 and the present arrangements, by which selected local seminars are broadcast across the Access Grid, will continue.
The AMSI membership will be encouraged to utilise their Access Grid Rooms for theme programs, multi-site workshops and teaching at the ICE-EM Summer and Graduate Schools where appropriate. Timely advertising of these activities through ICE-EM is imperative.

Quality Assurance

Information about AGR Global Quality Assurance Program can be found here.

Presentations of Interest

The Access Grid: A Technical Overview

Australian Academic and Research Network

Access Grid: Part II

The Access Grid: Quality Assurance Program

Publications

Blyth, W., (2008). Access Grid Retreat 2008 Report. AustMS Gazette, 35(4), 254-257, September 2008.

Blyth, W., (2008). The Access Grid: What is the Access Grid?... and what is it good for?. AustMS Gazette, 35(5), 311-314, November 2008.

Blyth, W., (2008). Access Grid: enabling e-Collaboration. International Mathematical Union on the Web, 29, November 2008.

Blyth, W., (2009). The Access Grid: Australia-New Zealand collaboration and eTeaching with pdf., AustMS Gazette, 36(1), 17-21, March 2009.

Blyth, W. & Bell, J., (2009). The Access Grid: AG on a personal computer; and using VPCScreen. AustMS Gazette, 36(2), 105-109, May 2009.

Blyth, W. (2009). The Access Grid: AG seminars: protocols and using VLC media player. AustMS Gazette, 36(3), 183-187, July 2009.

Bill Blyth, Keynote Speaker at Engineering Mathematics and Applications Conference (EMAC) 2009
Mathematical Tales of Technology and Collaboration
Howlett, P., Nelson, M. and Roberts, A. J. (editors) (2009) Proceedings of the 9th Biennial Engineering Mathematics and Applications Conference, ANZIAM J., 51, C803-C833.