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- Membership of pinger-my in https://groups.google.com
We are working with Dr Zaidi the new head of SEECS to investigate resources need to continue support of PingER in Pakistan. We communicated first week in August. No word since. Sent a reminder 8/1/2015. We had a rump meeting of Anjum, Hassaan and Les after the previous meeting to discuss the way forward. Hassaan is waiting to hear from HEC about the comments on the proposal. Any Update?
- NETAPPS2015:
All four papers were accepted.
Thiago has updated the Data Warehouse submission:
- Working out details of funding the registration, whether Thiago can be online to answer questions and who will present it.
9 students from Amity University near New Delhi in India interested in coming to SLAC for 3 months starting Feb until May. All expenses paid by them. T
SLAC putting together document on proposed projects, skills needs, setting up chat group
Joao a Brazillian student identified by Renan is interested in a 3 month internship at SLAC similar to those accomplished by Renan and Thiago. SLAC we are in communication and he has the a list of what is needed.
Needed to move this meeting 30 minutes earlier in future to accomodate Johari's schedule. Is this ongoing?
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- 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?
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Saqib
Saqib has submitted a project with title "A Fundamental Active Internet Performance Monitoring Framework for Pakistan Education & Research Network (PERN) in University of Agriculture, Faisalabad"
- Funding source will accept the projects if it is designed for the development of Agriculture in the University.
- Objective: The active internet performance monitoring framework for the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad helps in forecasting and detecting the events that cause bottleneck links in the network affecting the overall performance of the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.
- Initially the project is accepted. However, I received the following comment
- The PI was advised to include in the project the justification how it will have an impact on agriculture development in the University of Agriculture Faisalabad Pakistan.
- For justification I have added the following paragraph:
- The aim of this project is to provide the performance analysis and anomaly detection framework for the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad in order to detect the events that cause bottleneck links in the network affecting the overall performance of the University. Further, It will help to improve the performance of the web applications running in the university.
UUM
- Adib has managed to resolve all issues blocking UUM pinger Measurement Agent (including, firewall settings, DNS, etc.) . It should be stable from now on.
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. - Looking at the log and data at SLAC it looks to be working since 29th September.
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Johari will contact Hanan to request someone to support PingER at UTM, now Saqib has left. Johari will try dean to get a replacement for Saqib. However the Dean is new so Johari wants to gather some information first.
Saqib
Has a student interested to work on Hadoop and pinger data. Les has sent him information on the SLAC Nebula cluster Cloudera/impala/HDFS Pinger Data warehouse dedveloped by Thiago and Co.
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