Research activities on advanced network engineering technologies
Multicast/Access Grid
The Access Grid (AG) is the ensemble of resources that can be used to support human interaction across the Grid. It consists of multimedia display, presentation and interactive environments, interfaces to grid middleware, and interfaces to visualization environments. The AG will support large-scale distributed meetings, collaborative work sessions, seminars, lectures, tutorials and training. The AG design point is group-to-group communication (thus differentiating it from desktop to desktop based tools that focus on individual communication). The AG environment must enable both formal and informal group interactions. Large-format displays integrated with intelligent or active meeting rooms are a central feature of the AG nodes. AG nodes are "designed spaces" that explicitly contain the high-end audio and visual technology needed to provide a high-quality compelling user experience.AG Korea community has over 20 AG nodes as a result of the KISTI’s effort for extension of AG infrastructure that the domestic S&T researchers - in the area of Grid, Supercomputing, and high-end network engineering, and etc. - use actively for international collaborative works.
In order for domestic researchers to carry out collaborative works immersively with overseas research groups in S&T community, KISTI and GIST (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) have researched on enhanced AG system so that can transmit the high quality video images such as 3D, Digital Video, High Definition Video, and etc.
[Collaborative research meetings over AG]
