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Bebo said Topher would be interested in getting a student to port PingER to an Android. Possibly one of the 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 be back in a couple of days. He will set up a shareable Github for PingER files. Bebo and Topher are working on it. Les has provided the source code location. Once we have it then we can share with Amity to check it works.
There are some students at UNIMAS who have expressed interest in the illegal logging audio project. This might be tied into Microsoft's Imagine.
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"
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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. No update 11/3/2015
UM
Ibrahim has extracted the PingER Zip manually. He is reconstructing 11Gb of data, heas 15GBytes of data there. He is trying to use SPAR to classify the data. He alsop was looking at RDF. the next step si to use MapReduce to organize and reduce the output of dataso can vizualize it. He will be using a the same techniques he used for looking at 1996-2006 weather data. However at the moment he cannot access his VMs from myren for the last two weeks, even for the myren site, He has emailed them but till now they have not fixed the issue. he He has updated all his data in their cloud.
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UTM
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.
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"Faculty management in the Faculty of Computing-UTM is changed. They ask me to re-locate the PingER server from the faculty server room as students are not allowed for physical access of the server room. Only faculty members are allowed to physically manage the servers in the server room. Therefore, I asked my supervisor (Dr Md Asri Ngadi/ Prof Hanan) from UTM to take the responsibility of the server. He is agreed, however, I have to manage the server remotely. Further, he needs an official invitation from your side to fulfill the official requirements. Further, he wants to make this project as a source of an international collaboration and linkages between UTM and SLAC-Stanford."
Les sent back:
The UTM PingER server is part of a worldwide collaboration led by SLAC that includes about 70 sites in over 20 countries. These sites are monitoring on-going Internet end-to-end performance , both currently and in the past with a history of 18 years of collected data.
SLAC is happy to host postgraduate students from UTM for a period of up to a year to contribute to this project as visiting scientists.
The students participate in collaborative research and development on the Internet End-to-end Performance Measurement (IEPM) project to monitor, analyze and present information on the end-to-end performance of Internet links. This project includes researching and developing techniques to optimize the measurements for the purposes of characterizing the “Digital Divide”. Dr. Les. Cottrell of SLAC’s Office of the Chief Information Officer is the host. All support for the visit is provided by sources other than SLAC.
The students are expected to comply with all policies and procedures, including safety guidelines. Your mentor will provide them with any specific policies, procedures or safety guidelines for their assigned area. As a program participant, the student does not enter an employee/employer relationship with DOE, SLAC or any other federal agency.
MYREN
No update 8/12/2015, no Update 9/2/2015.
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