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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.
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 accommodate Johari's schedule. Is this ongoing?
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Bebo said Topher would be interested in getting a student to port PingER to an Android. Possibly one of the Chinese Indian students. Les put out a version of the PingER MA on Github at https://github.com/iepm/ in 2013 as part of coordinating with Google( which did not get very far). It has been dormant since it was put out there. 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.
Topher is at home for 2 weeks, he will set up a shareable Github for PingER files.
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?
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"
Any progress
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
- 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 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
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- . Further, It will help to improve the performance of the web applications running in the university.
- Les added:
Internet connectivity is critical to agriculture, especially since agriculture is usually conducted in rural and possibly remote areas. In particular it enables farmers to ascertain the optimum prices for seeds, fertilizers at, the most promising markets etc for their goods, upcoming weather conditions, forecasting yields, providing information for addressing challenges etc. It also supports timely sharing of information between farmers, their customers, and learning of new relevant developments from research and industrial centers such as the universities. This is very important since the adoption of new technologies has always been an important factor in agricultural productivity. See http://pnwsteep.wsu.edu/directseed/conf2k5/pdf/gillis.pdf
Understanding the Internet performance between the University of Agriculture and other areas of Pakistan will enable setting up: information centers at Faisalabad, outreach to agricultural communities (e.g. by social tools etc.), by setting realistic expectations for connectivity and hence capabilities to various regions of Pakistan for email, web, chat rooms, data sharing etc.
UUM
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Fatima implemented her work (involving HDFS and MapReduce with Pinger Data) on 50MB to 200MB data sets, using a 2-node cluster, and then a 3-node cluster. The work is not completed, but she has obtained some good results and is putting together the presentation for her final viva. She and Ibrahim are using the same cloud/cluster at MYREN.
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We have been unable to gather data from pingersonar-utm.myren.net.my since September 11th, 2015 pingersonar-utm.myren.net.my. It is pingable however there is no response from http://pingersonar-utm.myren.net.my/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl?function=ping&target=www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu&options=-i%200.2
NUST
Following the last meeting, Anjum, Hassaan and Les met to discuss the way forward.
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Thiago completed setting up the PingER data SQL Impala warehouse running on a Nebula/Cloudera cluster using the Hadoop File System (HDFS). Unfortunately it is not currently accessible from outside SLAC. There have been several attempts to provide outside access, 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 was a cyber security alert on the version of java installed with Cloudera. Les has replaced the cloudera version of java which should fix the vulnerability. However the new version has not been tested.
The Raspberry Pi at SLAC is still running smoothly since June 11th.
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Working on the following hosts to be able to gather data
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