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Hassaan Khaliq, Kashif, Raja, Samad Riaz (SEECS); Johari, Nara, Adnan Khan (UNIMAS); Abdullah, Badrul, Anjum, Ridzuan, Ibrahim (UM); Hanan, Saqib (UTM); Adib?, Fatima? (UUM); Fizi Jalil (MYREN); Thiago, Les, Bebo (SLAC)
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Bebo said Topher would be interested in getting a student to port PingER to an Android. Les has put the PingER MA server on Github. Les Possibly one of the Chinese students. Les put out a version of the PingER MA on Github at https://github.com/iepm/. He put them out there in 2013 as part of coordinating with Google( which did not get very far). It has been dormant since it was put out there. He Les is not a github expert or user so is unclear how complete it is or who can access it. Can somebody test and if not available let Les know what to do.
Unrest in Malaysia - Anjum, Johari, Les
- Anjum wondered if PingER could detect anomalies related to the recent unrest (protests against the government and DOS attacks against universities (such as UM or UNIMAS) in Malaysia. there were several attacks from the Anonymous group between August 28-31st. Following the meeting Les put out a web page at: Malaysian unrest Aug-Sep 2015. Is there an update?
Intern Anjum
- We discussed the potential for an undergraduate from UM spending 6 months at SLAC as an intern. SLAC would be very interested, however SLAC cannot sponsor a J1 visa for anyone who does not have the equivalent of a US bachelors degree. Anjum will pass this on and pursue from the UM end. It does nor appear promising
UFRJ
UUM
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- Adib has managed to resolve almost all issues blocking UUM pinger from running smoothly including the problematic switch connecting our lab with the computer center, firewall setting, DNS, ..etc. Therefore, we hope not to have any connectivity problem.
- They plan to move UUM pinger to UUM computer center, I have talked to the person in charge and we just need to get the director permission to move on. This will help us to resolve the electricity problem as well as to some how guarantee stable connectivity.
- Looking at the log and data at SLAC it looks to be working since 29th September.
Fatima is currently occupied with putting together her report. Regarding her work, she has successfully implemented some MapReduce codes on the data and presently fixing some errors in the code. Requested update
UM
Ibrahim had downloaded PingER in Zip files format, however, when he stored them in the Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) and try to process them, the file got corrupted, so he had to extract the file, but one file zip has more than 10000 zip files with small size. So he is trying to create a mapreduce job which can accept zip format, that will save lot of his time. Currently mapreduce can only read from files like .txt, and any doc file format or database. He will have meeting with Dr. Anjum on 11 of june asking for advice and seeking of how we can work on this together. No update 9/2/2015. Anjum will contact Ibrahim.
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perfsonar-unimas.myren.net.my is down since July 1st. Johari (9/2/2015) believes it may be due to a recent upgrade of the network SAN.
NUST
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Following the last meeting, Anjum, Hassaan and Les met to discuss the way forward.
- "Adnan currently is unable to find resources for handling the project. Similarly, there is no progress on hiring of a full time RA by NUST HQ.
- However, I (Hassaan) checked from HEC about the proposal that I submitted last year. They have informed me that 2 reviewers have asked for revisions while they are waiting for the third review. I am very hopeful about it. If the proposal is accepted then we can easily have a full time RA for the project. I have plans to talk to Dr. Zaidi about hiring an RA on assuming that our proposal will be accepted by HEC. We can then get his salary deducted later from the HEC project. I shall update you very soon in this regard."
PingER at SLAC
Thiago completed setting up the PingER data SQL Impala warehouse running on a Nebula/Cloudera cluster using the Hadoop File System (HDFS)the PingER warehouse database at SLAC. Unfortunately it is not currently accessible from outside SLAC. There have been several attempts, but no success yet, we need to engage the subject matter experts. Thiago is now a SLAC associate so he still has an account at SLAC. There is a cyber security alert on the version of java installed with Cloudera. Thiago is in New York and does not currently have WiFi.
- The Raspberry Pi at SLAC is still running smoothly since June 11th.
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