A completely new documentation is available. This User Guide describes precisely all the EVO features in an intuitive web site. Each feature has it is own documentation easily accessible from a nice interactive menu. Moreover a more accurate Quick Start documentation take place at the first page.

In addition to the several national telephone gateway we are proud to provide a Skype^TM gateway to participate to any EVO International meeting.

Evo-Learning system has been shown in public for the very first time at the TERENA Networking Conference (TNC 2010).
You can watch the presentation HERE.

We have extend the free usage of EVOLIGHT within the EVOGreen initiative until January 1, 2011!

A new version of the EVOGreen package is available to download.
Several bugs fixed and an improved package and its graphical interface!

We are proud to announce the very first EVOLight package available for the EVOGreen members. This package let the members install via a simple graphical interface the EVOLight server on their machine and provide a nice and powerful videoconference service.
A simplified interface in Koala will improve the ease of use of EVO.

The EVO Team.

EVOGreen and EVOLight are currently presented at the SuperComputing 09!

The EVO Green initiative is explained and presented at the SuperComputing 2008 at Portland (Oregon). From the 14th to the 20th of November 2009. Visit us at the Caltech booth (California Institute of California) and win some EVOGreen goodies...

http://sc09.supercomputing.org/

The EVO Green initiative project have been presented at the Fall Internet2 Member Meeting the October 7, 2009. For more information about the upcoming initiative that will provide a professional videoconference technology to the entire world for the price of an iPod please click here.

ARLINGTON, VA - April 28, 2009 - Today at its annual Spring Member Meeting, Internet2 announced that the "Enabling Virtual Organizations" or EVO application has been awarded the 2009 Internet2 Driving Exemplary Applications (IDEA) Award. The annual Internet2 IDEA award seeks to recognize leading innovators who have created and deployed advanced network applications that have enabled transformational progress in research, teaching and learning.

EVO, developed by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a videoconferencing and desktop sharing system designed to provide a seamless real-time collaboration platform for bridging remotely located collaborators and resources in support of science and research. Originally designed to meet the unique and demanding needs of the High Energy Physics (HEP) community, EVO is today in wide and continual use by thousands of collaborators in many disciplines, as well as by many groups of educators and students worldwide.

"Researchers involved in major global science projects rely on remote access to both collaborators and data on a daily basis throughout all phases of their project, from the original conception and design, to construction and commissioning, to the delivery of results and eventually their scientific discoveries," said Philippe Galvez, EVO's chief architect and senior research scientist at Caltech.

Harvey Newman, the Professor of Physics and head of US LHCNet who leads the Caltech team and a member of Internet2's Strategic Planning Executive Committee and Architecture and Operations Council said: Developing the EVO system was absolutely critical to support the work in the HEP community, and it has since provided a pathway for many other disciplines to rethink how they can leverage remote resources to achieve breakthroughs in their respective fields. We look forward to future developments by the EVO team to meet the rapidly evolving needs of scientific communities worldwide.

Chosen from many distinguished nominations, the winning submissions were judged on the depth of their positive impact on primary users, their technical merit, and the likelihood that the application would be more broadly adopted.

The EVO architecture emerged from over ten years of development and large-scale operation of collaborative tools, and Caltech's unique communications fabric for high-performance messaging, pervasive monitoring and autonomous control of global-scale systems called MonALISA (monalisa.caltech.edu).   EVO allows users throughout a worldwide scientific collaboration to integrate standards-based collaboration into all phases of their daily work, whether working on desktops or laptops with any of the major operating systems, in conference rooms using standard videoconferencing equipment, in experimental control rooms or auditoriums.

Through the use of intelligent agents, EVO automatically directs the data streams, optimally interlinks the sites participating in a conference, and moderates the flows and their quality to accommodate a wide range of network conditions. This provides round the clock non-stop system operations supporting many thousands of users, with a minimum of human intervention. On the client side, EVO supports a wide range of audio, video and display devices, including support for HD (1080i) sessions on mass market PC systems with large single or multiple screens at low cost. EVO's OpenGL-based 3D VIEVO interface has the unique capability of handling a wide variety of real-time high-resolution video, audio and other content in the form of "objects" for state-of-the-art scientific collaborative sessions.

"It is clear that the EVO project has had a significant impact on its primary user base within the high energy physics field and has already shown great potential for supporting many other communities within the research and education space," said Jack Suess, chair of the IDEA award judging committee, vice president for Information Technology and CIO of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. "We applaud EVO and its developers for this breakthrough work which we believe serves as a model for the entire community."

The IDEA Award was presented at Internet2's 2009 Spring Member Meeting held in Arlington, Virginia on April 28, 2009. Also to be recognized at the awards ceremony are two honorable mentions:

* The NSF-funded DRAGON (Dynamic Resource Allocation via GMPLS Optical Networks) project, with development collaborators from University of Maryland, Mid-Atlantic Crossroads, University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute (ISI) East, and George Mason University.  For more information, visit  http://dragon.maxgigapop.net/twiki/bin/view/DRAGON/WebHome.
* The Muse project, with development collaborators from MAGPI, MCNC, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Washington. For more information, visit http://k20.internet2.edu/.

Additional information about the Internet2 IDEA Awards can be found at http://www.internet2.edu/idea/.
For additional information on EVO, visit: http://evo.caltech.edu

About Internet2
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The EVO team will have a booth at the Fall 2008 Internet2 Member Meeting!

The demonstration will take place 13 - 16 October in the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (500 Canal Street).
Fore additional information please visit the offcial fall meeting web site.

All the videos organized automatically in 3D!




EVO offers the unique option of embedding the videos and content in a collaborative session in a three dimensional space, through the use of OpenGL and the acceleration of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) already available on most of today’s computer platforms at work and at home.
Moreover this new version of ViEVO (video application of EVO) allow to transmit and decode up to Full High Definition video (1080p)!

EVO will be demonstrated at Paris!


Please join us the 5th of February at the grand amphitheatre of ENSAM (151 Boulevard de l’Hopital, Metro Station: Place d’Italie) from 9:30.

For additional information please visit the french site of the TutoJRES.

A new EVO module allows to join any meeting via a normal phone (wire or cell phone). The phone participants appear with a specific vignette in the list of participant. The phone participant can be muted or kick out the meeting by the meeting moderator at any time.

Please visit us at the demonstration floor at San Diego SuperComputer Center.
Wednesday, 10 October from 1:30 to 5:00 PM our team will demonstrate the very last features of EVO.

We are proud to announce the official release of the world wide collaboration service for Research and Education using the EVO technologies.
Now scientists all around the world are be able to use the wonder of EVO.

The Internet2 Commons provides a special opportunity for the Internet2 community to explore some of the leading collaboration tool-suites, EVO included.
Participants will have opportunities to chance to try out a number of Real Time Collaboration Tool Suites on Monday, December 4, from 8:30am-12:30pm. To register for this event, please see the Fall 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting registration page. Please note, Member Meeting registration is not required to participate in this event.

EVO will be demonstrated at Fall 06 Internet2 MM at Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Between the December 4th and 7th, we will show EVO in action at our booth to the education and research US communities.
Please feel free to assist to one of our demonstrations.