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Anjum, Hassaan Khaliq, Kashif, Raja+,  Johari+, Nara, Abdullah, Badrul, Ridzuan-, Ibrahim+, Hanan, Saqib+, Adib, Les+, Renan, Bebo+

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  • Adib is waiting to hear from colleague (Dr. Nordin: chair of ISTT2014), there was no update as of this meeting. The conference is 2 days so the workshop may be squeezed to one day. The conference will be held in Langkawi between 24-26 Nov.  

    Hopefully, this will help us to attract good number of participants and get sponsor/support to cover our expenditure. Other option is to conduct the workshop in UUM, we are ready to provide Local Arrangement (lab, local transportation, and food). But there is no funding provided by the school  to support the transportation/accommodation of the  speakers.

  • Anjum reports (6/23/2014) that "the proposal for conference has been submitted for approval and Pinger has been added in the agenda. Travel expenses for you and Bebo have also been included in the conference proposal. We are awaiting the proposal approval. If the proposal gets approved, we can then decide on wether to actually conduct the Pinger Workshop at UM or at another place. I am saying this because I believe a stand alone pinger workshop will be more preferable.

    As discussed earlier, the only twist here is that Pinger will be seen as a case study for big data. This is good in a sense that people interested in doing research in the domain of big data can deploy pinger monitoring nodes at their respective universities/organisations and in return, play around with the data.

    We have to wait for the approval of proposal for conducting the workshop at UM. Tentative Dates are 24th and 25th November 2014."

  • Les will be in Burkina Faso Nov 13-21. He flies back to London on Nov 22nd.  He can get to Malaysia mid morning November 24th. Thus the workshop should be at the end of the ISTT2014 meeting if Les is to attend.

  • Bebo will be in Western Australia, Okinawa and possibly Singapore in November. Bebo is currently in the UK and will finalize his travel plans this week and send an itinerarysays: "A workshop beginning on November 17 (or that week) would be ideal for me."  I think that conflicts with Les who is in Burkina Faso that week.
  • Anjum suggested putting together a paper on metrics provided by PingER for Sigmetrix. The due date is in November.

Renan

After meeting with Renan's supervisor (Maria, Luiza Campos), she said she will be looking for a couple of students at UFRJ to assist Renan. Email requesting update sent to Luiza 6/22/2014.

UM

Luiza has set up 3 students at the Big Data Center @ UFRJ to assist us on our Linked ("big") Data research using PingER data. Up to this moment, Renan has  just explained with more details what we have done so far and what needs to be done. They are about to start new experiments and researches. Renan reports "Our whole country is working a bit differently these past days because of the World Cup. We are having lots and lots of holidays, which slows down a bit our production".

UM

Badrul (6Badrul (6/23/2014) is still awaiting hearing from his student (Abdulrahim Haroun Ali who is out of the country) on  the paper on anomalies in PingER measurements  and will update later once the paper ready. For the minute the paper is not ready.

Ridzuan has put together a rough proposal to use Hadoop to store and make available PingER data.  He is evaluating several vendors version of Hadoop 2.0 installations to decide which is the right one to adopt. Last time he successfully installed and tried Hadoop 1.0 but then it has many drawbacks such as no real-time streaming processing.  Johari sent information on the Myren Cloud. The web site  is as follows: https://cloud.myren.net.my/. It gives information about the service and how to apply, plus user guide is available from the website. As for Ridzuan, he should be eligible to register for the service, but he needs to check with  UM (University Malaya) procedures for applying for the service. No word from Ridzuan 6/4/2014. Requested update 6/23/2014available PingER data.  He has registered for the Myren cloud services last month. But until now still not getting any approval for the use of the mentioned services. Will follow up again with them. For the Hadoop implementation, He is  considering the use of Hortonworks Hadoop Data (HDP2) platform, however there are some problems with the latest installation because UM adopted IPV6. Most of the HDP2 repositories are resided in IPV4 server thus make it difficult to correctly install to our server. He is trying to use another platform or find a way to solve this installation problem.

Ibrahim Abaker  is planning to work on a topic initially entitled " leveraging pingER big data with a modified pingtable for event-correlation and clustering".  Ibrahim has a proposal, see https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/download/attachments/17162/leveraging+pingER+big+data+with+a+modified+pingtable+for+event-correlation+and+clustering.docx. He is currently spending  time reading about RDF storage and its retrieval, also he is  trying to setup Hadoop clusters for the experiment. He is in email discussion with Renan on which part to work on first. He plans to  collaborate with Renan to make the pinger store and process more efficient. Les has sent him documentation of PinGER which is very helpful. Ridzuans' work is more to do with hosting the data and stream data analysis. Ibrahim is looking more at applying MapReduce ( programming model for processing large data sets with a parallel, distributed algorithm on a cluster), reducing the storage needs and providing querying of the data. No word from Ibrahim 6/4/2014. Requested update 6/23/2014.

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Regarding the monitoring host in UUM, Adib has assigned one student to prepare the configuration/installation plan including how to secure their host from attack. He has a public IP address.  He needs to the DNS registration by Sunday 25th May or Monday.  He is in the last stage of working with the Computer Center. Adib requested Johari to share  the UNIMAS setting so it is easier for the student to follow. No update 6/5/2014. 

NUST

All references for the Bahawalpur site goes to Director IT, but he is still silent and we are waiting for his replyThe Bahawalpur site for new PingER Monitoring node: Kashif contacted once again tohe Director IT, and this time he replied positively and he is waiting for the new machine and hopefully the installation of PingER node will be done in next week.

Kashif reports the following are now fixed.

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Kashif is working on the rest of nodes. He plans to have 3 or 4 more up and running this coming week..  Among those, may be the following that have not responded to gathering data in the last month are:

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  • ,  Drop (IP blocked frequently so currently not good as a PingER)

Raja

Raja has improved improving the GUI for TULIP. In particular visualizing the intersection region (showing both the minimum and maximal circles), showing landmarks, adding Google analytics. Raja has added undns  (a tool for guessing the location from the router name)  to TULIP and also to VTrace. It is not very successful, its heuristics are outdated (last update 2005)

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