Minutes of July 10, 2009 ScienceSim Senate

In the meeting: Aaron Duffy, Andrew FitzGibbon, Lee (Ray-mon Burned), Mic Bowman, Paul Steinberg, Shenlei Winkler, Tom Murphy, Wilfred Pinfold

Next senate meeting: July 17, 2009 in SciSim at Galileo (181, 181, 32)

Inworld transcript from Keplar:

ScienceSim Calendar

• Next Up: ”Think Parallel” Blogcast with guest Professor Emeritus of Physics, Rubin Landau, from Oregon State University Tuesday July 14 from 10:00-10:30 AM PST at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/TeachParallel and in world in Galileo /178/201/32/

Voice

• Still on freeswitch, thus regionwide voice
• Joel still working on it
• We are going to write up tuning

ScienceSim Infrastructure Status

• We've used same ScienceSim version the last 5 weeks
  • Most recently we've had 1-2 weeks uptime
• New verion being cherrypicked over next week, coupled with a hardware upgrade
• New cherrypick yields performance improvements
• New hardware has already been running new releases
• Future planning
  • RealXtend viewer (has cable beach asset mamangment built in)
  • Open id authentication allows google/aol/yahoo

SC Conference

• Justin Rattner from Intel - is plenary speaker
• Need material for video run during talk
  • Machina of demonstration in ScienceSim

• Lee from Strategic Analysis knows how to use FRAP for making machinima
• Seeking material for video run before opening address

Galaxsee

• 2 weeks or so away
• Have grad student for LSU workshop interested in using in-world controls with his chemical process plant simulation he will port to ScienceSim

Teach Parallel

• Mic showed how we can bridge IRC and in-world chat
• Can run archive of shows in-world