Attendees
Anjum, Kashif, Johari, Nara, Abdullah, Bebo, Les, Raja and Umar were invited. Raja and Umar were unable to be present.
Visas
Anjum and Kashif have received invitations from UNIMAS and sent a visa request to the Embassy about 2 weeks ago. Last time Anjum went for a visa it took 31 days. The advertised normal time is 15 days. It's getting tight. As of 11/30/2012 the visas have not been received. Anjum will enlist Arshad to contact the embassy direct. It is looking very doubtful that the visas will be issued in time.
MYREN in KL
We will meet in KL (check in Dec 11, check out Dec 12) before going onto Kuching (fly out for Kuching on Malaysia Airline MH2532 at 20:55 on Dec 12).
In KL we will stay in the Equatorial hotel. Les will arrive a day early. He needs name & address of hotel for 1st night. Johari will email the hotel information later today.
We will attend a meeting of MYREN, the Malaysia NREN. Anjum and Les will be giving talks on PingER in the afternoon. The title of Les' talk is "PingER: Actively measuring the worldwide Internet’s end-to-end performance". It is available online. Anjum's talk is on setting up PingER in Pakistan. Anjum will send a copy to Les later today and Les will present it for Anjum.
Workshop in Kuching
As a backup if Anjum and Kashif do not get their visas and cannot attend. Anjum, Kashif and Johari will experiment with some form of remote conferencing for the presentation of Kashif's talk. A likely candidate for Kashif's talk is to have a copy of the slides at UNIMAS, Kashif dials in from NUST and makes the presentation with someone at Kuching moving the slides. If all esle fails, Les can present Kashif's talk, on PingER in Pakistan, in the morning of the first day. For Kashif's hands on session on the second day, on Monday they will explore using something like LogMeIn, or simpls ssh accesss to enable Kahif to control the host in the workshop from NUST. Kashif will need a host with a public IP address.
UNIMAS monitoring host
UNIMAS is monitoring other Malaysian and Indonesian hosts outside the regular Beacons.
There is a problem with the UNIMAS traceroute. It appears pinger.unimas.my is behind a NAT that is not passing the traceroute UDP probes. Johari has sent email to the network/system, admins, but does not have a response, He followed up with a reminder. The traceroute/ping server is important for the TULIP trilateration project. If there is no resolution from the netwotk/system people then they will move the server to the DMZ.
Johari added the extra 2 Philippines EDU sites (www.swu.edu.ph and www.auf.edu.ph) and MYREN to the UNIMAS monitoring site.
Telekom Malaysia, which is the service provider for UNIMAS is currently testing the 500 MBps line from 3rd to 9th of Dec. Hopefully we can gather some info once the data is collected from the PingER monitoring host. No major effect has been seen so far. It is not possible to turn off the traffic shaping. A performance test would be to set upiperf at NUST and UNIMAS and measure the TCP performance memory to memory. Other measures can be made: using Speedtest (to a Sppedtest site as close to UNIMAS as possible to eliminate long RTT challenges again from a browser at UNIMAS.) from a browser at UNIMAS; using an NDT server.
UM KL
Abdullah raised a question on grant applications. Anjum has sent 3 proposals with significant research components as examples. These need to be reviewed by Nara, Johari, and Abdullah to see how they may be appropriate for the Malaysian eScience program. We will discuss potential research directions . on the last day of the workshop. Anjum will join by Skype.
Abdullah has passed the infromation on PingER to colleagues. there are 2 people who are interested in pursuing. One will be at the MYREN workshop making a presentation. Abdullah will send email introducing the UM KL person
NUST
From Arshad: Rector has agreed to support one person visit to SLAC. Kashif is the likely candidate and it looks like a year. However, there is a problem with the bond. This does not appear to be surmountable, so the student proposed is Asif. Asif will send his resume to Les. Les will look into getting an invitation letter. Ideally Anjum would like an invitation letter before Xmas.
PingER at SLAC
There is a new case study on Syria at https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Syria+shuts+down+its+Internet+connection
Les has added www.myren.net.my to the monitoring from SLAC.
TULIP
Les has added a link to Raja's report on TULIP Analysis of alpha as a function of RTT and Region for Europe, North America and Pakistan to the web page https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/PingER#PingER-TULIP.
Raja reports he is working on making input files to test the new code. Previously he tried to manually make the input file (list of min-RTTs from all landmarks) by copy pasting from e.g http://www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/reflector.cgi?region=Europe&target=193.62.127.224&tier=1&type=PlanetLab&ability=1 but this proved to be quite tedious so now I am writing a matlab script to automate the process. Bilal used such a script he believe but he hasn't seen it in his code files.
Future meeting time - Les
Next meeting Wednesday 9th January 2013 8:00pm Pacific Daylight Time, Thursday 10th January 2013 9:00pm Pakistan time, Thursday 10th January 2013 12:00 noon Malaysian time.