Pailthorpe, Willing and Bordes
built the first Australian Access Grid (AG) node in Sydney VisLab (at
the Australian Technology Park and the University of Sydney Physics) in
2001.
VisLab is the Access Grid development site for the Queensland
Parallel Supercomputing Foundation (QPSF) and the Australian
Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC). The VisLab AG comprises:
• 3 JVC D-ILA projectors (1280 x
1024 pixels): total projected area: 3840 x 1024 pixels
• internet ports for laptops
• adjustable lighting
• high-speed connection
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Read more on the AG development project in VisLab
» High Resolution DisplaysVisLab provide access to a
digital video suite for the creation and editing of videos.
• Apple G5 edit suite with 80
GB space (to be extended to 0.5 TB)
• FinalCut Pro software
Several general access Linux
workstations are available for research
• Apple G5 X-serve Raid
Array (1TByte)