Welcome to the Portlet Access Grid Reference Server

This is the reference installation of the Portlet Access Grid.

Overview

The Portlet Access Grid project provides a fully-functional portlet client for the Access Grid Toolkit version 3 (AGTkv3) that in addition enables automatic and transparent switching to unicast when multicast becomes unavailable, allows the use of Access Grid behind restrictive firewalls and from low bandwidth connections, and significantly simplifies the installation procedure for users as it only requires a recent Java Runtime Environment (1.5 or newer) on the client machine.

The portlet client can connect to any AGTk3 server and allows free navigation of virtual venues, communication using audio and video, access to the Jabber text chat, and access to shared applications and data within the venue. This client will be fully interoperable with other AGTk3 users and be designed to be easy to incorporate AGTk updates, as well as retaining the current level of AGTk interoperability with ioCom clients. These developments have the potential to benefit the significant portion of the academic community currently using Access Grid, will allow use of Access Grid within a familiar web-based environment from almost any location, e.g. internet cafes/hotel rooms, and will address the major perceived drawbacks to Access Grid compared to other collaboration environments.

PAG in a wiki and PAG in a blog

Using Portlet Access Grid

To join an Access Grid session please click here or on the PAG tab on the top of the page.

Reporting Bugs and Requesting features

There is a bugzilla available to report issues and request new features for the Portlet Access Grid.

Email lists

 PAG-SUPPORT@listserv.manchester.ac.uk Portal Access Grid development support list

 PAG-USERS@listserv.manchester.ac.uk Announcement list for PAG users