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- They learn about the PingER and other projects
- They work on assigned tasks working in Kuching
- We meet regularly (e.g. weekly) via phone (Skype) to review progress.
- Meeting includes Les at SLAC, any Kuching students at SLAC, students and supervisor in Kuching
- Daily emails, skype calls & instant messaging to keep in contact
- Tasks will involve programming (typically in perl) of network measurements, analysis and presentation (GUIs) of information
- The best of the best graduate students are invited to SLAC for 1 year as an intern/visiting scientist
Up to 2 graduate or beyond students at a time at SLAC, Funded by UNIMAS:
- They will work together with the SLAC team on projects such as PingErPingER, perfSONAR
- Depending on the student there may be opportunities for presentations, talks, and contributing to publications
- They are funded by Kuching
- If interested then fairly early on it would be good to have a face to face meeting in Kuching and/or SLAC to go over expectations, do some publicity, introductions etc.
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Typically visits are expected to be for about a year. UNIMAS are on a 2 semester system. There is a a break of 3 weeks. the The semesters start September and February.
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The exact tasks to be performed will depend to some extent on the students interests for example do they lean more to.
- Building network monitoring tools tools (measurement, analysis, GUIs)
- Analyzing data, producing case studies
- Research, writing papers
The following are potential areas for tasks.
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Coordinate fortnightly phone meetings with UNIMAS.
Coordinate weekly regular phone meetings with NUST Pakistan.
Consult higher education for funding
- Funding for extended (1 year) internships at SLAC…